Pinyan v. Settle

Defendant assigns as error the denial of his motion for judgment of compulsory nonsuit entered at the close of all the evidence. Plaintiff’s evidence, and the allegations of fact in his complaint, which the answer admits to be true, and defendant’s testimony favorable to plaintiff (Bundy v. Powell, 229 N.C. 707, 51 S.E. 2d 307), show the following facts:

In April 1961, Kyle’s Amoco Service Station in the city of Greensboro had two retail gasoline pump islands in front of the station building. These islands run in a north-south direction, with one island in line with and south of the other, and…