Speas Ex Rel. Shugart v. City of Greensboro

The record is voluminous but the controversy involves only a few familiar principles of law. A brief consideration of the exceptions is all that is necessary.

Neither defendant is entitled to a judgment of nonsuit. The motion of the corporate defendant rests upon three propositions: (1) The evidence of negligence against the city is not sufficient to justify the submission of an issue to the jury; (2) the plaintiff’s injury was due to the independent and intervening acts of the defendant Wall; (3) according to his own evidence the negligence of the plaintiff proximately contributed to his…