Townsend ex rel. Carter v. Noah Akers Frye

VAUGHN, Judge.

All of appellants’ assignments of error are directed to the charge of the court.

Plaintiffs assign as error the failure of the trial judge to instruct the jury with respect to a motorist’s right, in the absence of anything which should give him notice to the contrary, to assume and to act on the assumption that other drivers will observe the rules of the road and stop in obedience to a traffic signal. We agree that this principle of law arose on the evidence in the case and that the court failed to give the appropriate instruction.

In Lowe v. Futrell, 271 N.C. 550, 157 S.E. 2d 92,…