Brittain v. Piedmont Aviation, Inc.

Defendant’s principal assignment of error is directed to the refusal of the court to allow its motion for nonsuit. It argues here that there is no evidence to support the allegations of negligence, strenuously contending that all the evidence shows that the violent movement of the plane, which admittedly happened, occurred at a time and place where there was no reason to suspect any abnormal atmospheric conditions, asserting that the violent movement was due to what it refers to as clear-air turbulence.

The law applicable to this case was stated by Moore, J., in Jackson v. Stancil, 253 N.C.…