Griffin v. Watkins

In specifying the acts of omission and commission which they contend constituted negligence and contributory negligence on the part of plaintiff, defendants allege that he failed to operate his automobile at a speed which would permit him to stop within the range of his headlights. With reference to the second issue, they assign as error violative of G.S. 1-180 the judge’s failure to charge the jury in words substantially to this effect: If the jury should be satisfied by the greater weight of the evidence that, at the time of the accident, the hour or visibility was such that it became…