SLOAN v. GLENN

No. 388.

95 S.E.2d 81 (1956)

245 N.C. 55

Mrs. Pauline B. SLOAN, Administratrix of the Estate of Lawrence Sloan, v. Joe H. GLENN, Jr., James K. Glenn, Mrs. Corinna J. Bennett, Louise G. Glenn, Vera E. Bennett, Partners, doing business under the Partnership Name of Quality Oil Transport, and Claude Dean Lewis.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

November 21, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deal, Hutchings & Minor, Winston-Salem, for defendants, appellants.

C. H. Dearman, Statesville, and Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice, Winston-Salem, for plaintiff, appellee.


BOBBITT, Justice.

The evidence was sufficient, when considered in the light most favorable to plaintiff, to require submission of the case to the jury. Moreover, the evidence, when so considered, did not warrant the special peremptory instruction requested by defendants, relating to the contributory negligence issue. Hence, the assignments of error directed to the denial of defendants' motion for judgment of nonsuit and to the refusal of the court to give the peremptory...

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