Southern National Bank of NC v. Lindsey

Plaintiff’s evidence shows these facts: About 12:15 p.m. on Sunday, 23 February 1964, David 0. Pearce, a State Highway patrolman, arrived at the scene of a motor vehicle accident on Rural Paved Road #1150 about five miles north of the town of Rowland. “Rural Paved Road 1150 runs generally north and south, or northwest to southeast, it is crooked, runs all kinds of ways.” Fie saw there a 1960 GMC log and pulpwood truck, owned by defendant, headed south, upright on its wheels, on the west side of the road with its left wheels in a drainage ditch of the highway and its right wheels in a field…