Leary v. . Land Bank

Civil action for recovery of property damage resulting from alleged actionable negligence.

The undisputed facts are substantially these: On the night of 18 March, 1938, a motor truck, owned by plaintiffs and operated by their employee, Elton Holley, traveling on the State Highway in Bertie County, North Carolina, from Windsor to Edenton, and a passenger automobile owned by the defendant bank, in the possession, and under the control and direction of its traveling agent and servant, W. B. Newbern, and operated by the defendant, Junius Bess, as chauffeur for the said Newbern, also agent and…