Peoples v. . Fulk

This is a civil action to recover damages for wrongful death resulting from alleged negligence of defendant. The causes was originally tried in the Forsyth County Court and was heard in the court below on appeal upon assignments of error.

On 21 December, 1938, at about 6:35 a.m., an agent of defendant was operating one of his passenger buses westwardly on Polo Road near Winston-Salem. He stopped the bus at the intersection of a side road to pick up a passenger. At the time the bus stopped it was entirely on the hard surface portion of the highway on its right-hand side. At the time the bus…