Spruill v. Summerlin

ARNOLD, Judge.

We disagree with defendants’ position that the evidence as presented by plaintiff and the opinion of this Court in Cardwell v. Ware, 36 N.C. App. 366, 243 S.E. 2d 915, disc. rev. denied, 295 N.C. 548, 248 S.E. 2d 726 (1978), compelled the granting of a directed verdict on the grounds of plaintiffs contributory negligence as a matter of law.

Plaintiff presented evidence that she turned onto Highway #13 in a steady rain, travelled approximately eight hundred feet, allowed a car to pass going in the opposite direction and attempted to turn left into a driveway. Plaintiff testified…