McLamb v. . Beasley

Civil actions to recover damages for alleged negligent injuries, by consent consolidated and tried together, as the two actions arise out of the same state of facts.

William Hood, while driving a truck along the Smithfield-Angier highway on the night of 18 February, 1939, negligently ran into the rear of a wagon in which the two plaintiffs were riding and injured both of them. Hood was employed as a handy man around the defendant's store and was the regular driver of the delivery truck which he was using on the night in question. At the conclusion of the day's work, Hood drove the defendant's…