WESTMORELAND v. GREGORY

No. 529.

120 S.E.2d 523 (1961)

255 N.C. 172

Florence R. WESTMORELAND v. William Harold GREGORY and Eugene Robert Gregory.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

June 16, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dupree, Weaver, Horton & Cockman, Raleigh, for defendants-appellants.

Wilson & Bain, Dunn, for plaintiff-appellee.


BOBBITT, Justice.

Defendants' motions for judgments of nonsuit were properly overruled. The evidence, when considered in the light most favorable to plaintiff, was amply sufficient to support findings that Harold Gregory's actionable negligence proximately caused the mishap and that Buddy Gregory was liable therefor under the family purpose doctrine. Whether plaintiff was contributorily negligent, as alleged by defendants, was for jury determination upon sharply conflicting...

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