Watt v. Crews
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by Transport Corporation and .additional defendant O’Brien from Williams, J., 6 M-ay 1963 Civil Session of WaKe. The plaintiff instituted this action to recover for personal injuries sustained in a ¡collision between a .tractor-trailer, operated by defendant Transport Corporation, and lan automobile in which the plaintiff was riding and which was owned and operated .at the time of the collision by the additional defendant O’Brien.
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Appeal by Transport Corporation and .additional defendant O’Brien from Williams, J., 6 M-ay 1963 Civil Session of WaKe. The plaintiff instituted this action to recover for personal injuries sustained in a ¡collision between a .tractor-trailer, operated by defendant Transport Corporation, and lan automobile in which the plaintiff was riding and which was owned and operated .at the time of the collision by the additional defendant O’Brien. On 23 August 1961, about 11:00 p.m., defendant Transport Corporation’s ittt’actor-trailer was being operated by its driver, defendant William Vernon Crew®,…
1Opinion of the CourtDenny, C.J.
We shall first consider the appeal of ¡the Transport Corporation. This appellant has abandoned all its exceptions and assignments of .error except those challenging the action of the trial judge in refusing to grant its ¡motion for judgment ais of nonsuit as to plaintiff at the close of all the evidence.
The evidence is in sharp 'conflict with respect to lights on the rear of the parked tractor-trailer at the time of the ¡accident. The Highway Patrolman who -arrived at the scene of the accident about 20 minutes after it -occurred testified: “When I arrived -at the scene of the accident there…
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