GRIFFIN v. WARD

No. 697.

148 S.E.2d 133 (1966)

267 N.C. 296

Judy Faye GRIFFIN v. Willie D. WARD.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

May 11, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sullivan & Horne, by Kirby Sullivan and Thomas E. Horne, Southport, for plaintiff appellee.

Stevens, Burgwin, McGhee & Ryals, by Ellis L. Aycock, Wilmington, Herring, Walton, Parker & Powell, by Ray Walton, Southport, for defendant appellant.


PLESS, Justice.

G.S. § 20-154, which provides that the driver of a motor vehicle shall not stop without first seeing that he can do so in safety and that he must give a signal of his intention where the operation of other cars might be affected, is not applicable where the driver has no choice. Here the defendant was confronted with a situation which demanded that he stop because the line of cars in front of him had done so and he could not turn left because...

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