Slade Ex Rel. Slade v. New Hanover County Board of Education

GRAHAM, Judge.

In concluding that the minor plaintiff’s injuries resulted from the actionable negligence of the school bus driver, the Commission applied the standard of care set forth by the Supreme Court in Greene v. Board of Education, 237 N.C. 336, 75 S.E. 2d 129, wherein it is stated as follows:

“This duty to exercise a high degree of caution in order to meet the standard of care required of a motorist, Rea v. Simowitz, 225 N. C. 575, 35 S.E. 2d 871, when he sees or by the exercise of ordinary care should see children on a highway applies with peculiar emphasis to the operator of a school…