Kennedy v. James

Defendant assigns as error the denial of her motion for judgment of compulsory nonsuit renewed at the close of all the evidence. Her argument in her brief is that her motion should have been allowed on the ground of the contributory negligence of the driver of plaintiff’s automobile as a matter of law.

Plaintiff’s evidence tends to show these facts: About 6:45 or 7:00 p. m. o’clock on Sunday, 27 July 1958, Kenneth R. Kennedy, son and agent of plaintiff, was driving his father’s Chevrolet automobile south on Kerr Street in the city of Concord, and approaching its intersection with Moore Street.…