Beck v. . Hooks

DEVIN and SEAWELL., JJ., concur in dissent. Civil action to recover damages for personal injury resulting from alleged actionable negligence. Defendants denied allegation of negligence, and pleaded contributory negligence.

On the night of 6 November, 1938, plaintiff's automobile, driven by his nephew, Alvis Beck, at his request and under his direction, and in which he was riding, traveling north on U.S. Highway No. 15, from Durham toward Oxford, ran into and collided with the rear end of a trailer truck of defendants, loaded with furniture, and likewise headed north, standing partly on and…