Roberson v. Carolina Taxi Service, Inc.

Appellants challenge the correctness of the result below chiefly on the ground that the plaintiff’s evidence conclusively showed such contributory negligence on his part that their motion for judgment of nonsuit should have been allowed. They urge that by reason of the fact that plaintiff voluntarily took a position of danger on the running board of a moving automobile he was, as a matter of law, barred of recovery for„an injury to which, it is contended, his own negligence thus proximately contributed.

This presents the question whether the mere fact that the plaintiff was standing on the…