RAMEY v. SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY

No. 667.

136 S.E.2d 638 (1964)

262 N.C. 230

J. B. RAMEY v. SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

June 12, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elledge & Mast, Winston-Salem, Blalock & Swanson, Pilot Mountain, Randolph & Clayton, by Clyde C. Randolph, Jr., Winston-Salem, for plaintiff appellant.

W. T. Joyner, Raleigh, A. B. Carter, Mt. Airy, Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice, by W. P. Sandridge, Jr., Winston-Salem, for defendant appellee.


PARKER, Justice.

The judgment of compulsory nonsuit must be sustained if plaintiff's evidence considered in the light most favorable to him fails to show any actionable negligence on defendant's part, or if his evidence considered in the same light affirmatively shows contributory negligence on his part so clearly that no other conclusion can be reasonably drawn therefrom. Jenkins v. Atlantic Coast Line R. R. Co., 258 N.C. 58,

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