Knight v. Associated Transport, Inc.

The law as declared on the first appeal was the law of the case and controlling in subsequent trials. Collins v. Simms, 257 N.C. 1; Pulley v. Pulley, 256 N.C. 600, 124 S.E. 2d 571; Glenn v. Raleigh, 248 N.C. 378, 103 S.E. 2d 482.

*759The law applicable to the facts which plaintiff’s evidence tended to establish is clearly and succinctly stated in the following quotations from the opinion written by the present Chief Justice. He said: “[W]e have come to the conclusion that where common carriers of freight are operating tractor-trailer units, on public highways, and such equipment bears the insignia…