Leake v. Queen City Coach Co.

The plaintiff relies upon the case of Smith v. Cab Co., 227 N.C. 572, 42 S.E. 2d 657, to establish the alleged liability of the defendant in this case; but the facts in that case are noticeably different from those in the present litigation. In that case, the evidence was to the effect that the plaintiff entered the defendant’s cab about 2:00 o’clock in the morning, that she was pulled out of it by a woman with whom she had had trouble earlier in the evening, that the plaintiff succeeded in getting back into the cab, and the driver was urged to drive off. This he failed to do, saying “I am…