Coleman v. Burris

Plaintiff’s evidence tends to show these facts: About 11 p.m. on 29 January 1964 he was driving his 1963 Volkswagen Kar-mann Ghia, which is about six and a half feet wide, north on North Broad Street in the city of Gastonia at a speed of 25 or 30 miles an hour. He was alone in the car. North Broad Street is an asphalt paved street 20 or 21 or 22 feet wide. On the eastern side of the pavement of North Broad Street in the area where the collision hereafter set forth occurred is a dirt shoulder about four feet wide and beyond the shoulder is a ditch about eighteen inches to two feet deep. The…