Prevatte v. Cabble

BROCK, Chief Judge.

The sole assignment of error challenges the granting of defendants’ motion for directed verdict. It is plaintiff’s contention that evidence of the plea of guilty to the offense of driving an automobile at a speed greater than reasonable or prudent is, when taken with physical facts of the evidence, enough to withstand the motion.

In four cases involving two car collisions in which the basic issue was in whose lane the collision occurred, the Supreme Court established certain principles which we find applicable. In Dixon v. Edwards, 265 N.C. 470, 144 S.E. 2d 408, two cars *526coll…