Caulder Ex Rel. Townsend v. Gresham

The defendant’s driver left his truck unattended, partly on the paved or improved portion -of a State Highway between sunset and sunup without displaying flares or lanterns not less than two hundred feet to the front and rear of the vehicle, in violation of the provisions of G. S., 20-161. That this was an act of negligence is not seriously contested.

The driver of the car in which plaintiff was riding was operating his automobile at 30 or 35 miles per hour, under conditions which made it impossible for him to see more than a few feet ahead. He was outrunning his lights. Although the jury…