McCurdy v. Ashley

After midday on 9 October 1960 Bruce Eugene Mc-Curdy and his two sons, Bradley Eugene McCurdy nearly six years old and Tony McCurdy about four years and five or six months old (he testified he was six in June 1962), met defendant at a radio station near the town of Mooresville, and all three got in defendant’s 1953 Oldsmobile to go to the Lincolnton drag strip. A short time thereafter Adrian Settlemeyer was driving an automobile 40 miles an hour west on Plighway 150 near the town of Terrell, in Catawba County. When a black automobile was passing him on his left, defendant’s Oldemo-bile passed…