Batts v. Home Telephone & Telegraph Co.

The defendant’s main exception, as stressed on the argument and in its brief, is the one directed to the refusal of the court to grant its motion for judgment as of nonsuit, made first at the close of 'the plaintiff’s evidence, and renewed at the close of all the evidence.

There was evidence tending to support the jury’s finding on the first three issues; and this, we think, was sufficient to import liability under authority of Campbell v. Boyd, 88 N. C., 131; Monroe v. R. R., 151 N. C., 374. See, also, 20 R. C. L., 65, where the rule applicable is stated as follows:

“Where the owner or…