Carpenter v. Asheville Power & Light Co.

The exception addressed to the refusal of the court to grant the defendant’s motion for judgment as of nonsuit cannot be sustained. The evidence was sufficient to carry the case to the jury. The motion was properly overruled on authority of McAllister v. Pryor, 187 N. C., 832, where the question is fully discussed in a valuable opinion by Associate Justice Clarkson.

But we think the trial court committed error, prejudicial to the defendant, in the admission, over objection, of the evidence of Dr. Ambler, father of plaintiff’s intestate, to the effect that he had seen a.letter from a Mr.…