CROTTS v. OVERNITE TRANSPORTATION COMPANY

No. 385.

98 S.E.2d 502 (1957)

246 N.C. 420

Hylton K. CROTTS v. OVERNITE TRANSPORTATION COMPANY and Earl T. Williams.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

June 7, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ingle, Rucker & Ingle; Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice; Ratcliff, Vaughn, Hudson, Ferrell & Carter, Winston-Salem, for plaintiff, appellant.

Deal, Hutchins & Minor, Winston-Salem, for defendant, appellees.


RODMAN, Justice.

The correctness of the judgment rests on the answer given to the question: Does the evidence establish that a proximate cause of plaintiff's injuries was his own negligence?

The question is answered by reviewing the evidence in the light most favorable to plaintiff, giving to him the benefit of all the inferences to be reasonably drawn therefrom and drawing no inference adverse to him not reasonably necessary from the evidence. When so viewed...

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