Peeler v. Southern Railway Co.

VAUGHN, Judge.

Contributory negligence is an act or omission by a plaintiff, amounting to a lack of ordinary care, concurring and cooperating with some negligent act or omission on the part of the defendant that makes the act or omission of the plaintiff a proximate cause of the injury complained of. Adams v. Board of Education, 248 N.C. 506, 103 S.E. 2d 854. A motion for directed verdict upon the ground of contributory negligence should be allowed only when plaintiff’s evidence, considered in the light most favorable to him, together with inferences favorable to him that may be reasonably…