Atkins v. White Transportation Co.

The force with which the plaintiff's truck ran into the rear of the bus, knocked it forward a distance of 24 or 25 feet, threw a passenger to the floor of the bus with consequent injury, and caused much damage to both vehicles, establishes beyond peradventure the negligence of the driver of the truck as a contributing cause of the collision. Austin v. Overton, 222 N. C., 89, 21 S. E. (2d), 887; Pierce v. Seymour, 222 N. C., 42, 21 S. E. (2d), 884; Sibbit v. Transit Co., 220 N. 0., 702, 18 S. E. (2d), 203; Davis v. Jeffreys, 197 N. C., 712, 150 S. E., 488.

Primarily, the difference of opinion…