Hughes v. . Lassiter

The facts in substance:

The defendants, Robert G. Lassiter Company, had a contract with the State Highway Commission to construct a hard-surfaced road between Aberdeen and Pinehurst, part of State Highway System Route 70. Plaintiff lived at Parkton, and on 9 December, 1925, about daylight, started in a seven-passenger Buick automobile, sitting on the front seat with his nephew driving, an experienced automobile driver, and two others, to go to a village the other side of Albemarle, on business. They came by Raeford and reached Aberdeen about 7 o'clock in the morning, crossed the railroad and…