ROUSE v. PETERSON

No. 312.

135 S.E.2d 549 (1964)

261 N.C. 600

Geraline ROUSE v. Richard C. PETERSON and Leon H. Herring.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

April 8, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Whitaker & Jeffress, Kinston, for defendant appellants.

White & Aycock, by Thomas J. White, Kinston, for plaintiff appellee.


PER CURIAM.

Defendants assign as error the denial of their motion for judgment of compulsory nonsuit made at the close of all the evidence. They contend their motion should have been allowed for the reason that plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence as a matter of law. It is manifest that plaintiff's evidence is sufficient to show that defendants were negligent and that their negligence proximately caused plaintiff's injuries.

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