Webb v. Felton

The failure of the bus driver to blow his horn in apt time before attempting to pass the boy on his bicycle — a boy who had not looked back from the time the bus driver had first sighted him 150 yards ahead — was a violation of G.S. 20-149 (b), and evidence of negligence. Tallent v. Talbert, 249 N.C. 149, 105 S.E. 2d 426. Defendants concede that the trial judge allowed their motion for nonsuit upon the theory that Robert was guilty of contributory negligence per se in that, without giving any signal of his intention to do so, he veered suddenly from a direct line of travel when such a…