Norman v. . R. R.

On 27 March, 1913, the plaintiff was driving his automobile from the Seaboard Air Line Railway station at the north end of Tryon Street in the city of Charlotte, in a southerly direction along that street to Ninth Street, intending to turn into the latter street; but when he reached it, he found it blocked by a wagon and a rope across it. He reversed his car and backed out over the two street railway tracks, laid at that point on Tryon Street, and looked in the direction he was going, to see if there was anything in the way to prevent him from backing over to the other side of the street,…