Smith v. Corsat

Plaintiff assigns as error the denial of his motion to nonsuit defendant’s counterclaim.

The collision occurred shortly after midnight on 18 November 1961 on U. S. Highway 64 in Siler City. Plaintiff was driving his Mercury Comet station wagon eastwardly, and defendant was operating his Volkswagen panel truck westwardly. According to plaintiff’s account of the accident, defendant made a left turn off the highway into the driveway of Ruth’s Drive-in, which is on the south side of the high way, and then suddenly and without warning turned bank into the highway in the path of plaintiff’s vehicle…