PEOPLES BANK & TRUST COMPANY v. SNOWDEN

No. 32.

148 S.E.2d 833 (1966)

267 N.C. 749

PEOPLES BANK & TRUST COMPANY, Administrator of the Estate of George Sprite Barbee, Jr. v. Lonnie Glenn SNOWDEN.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

July 6, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

LeRoy, Wells & Shaw, by Dewey W Wells and L. P. Hornthal, Jr., Elizabeth City, for plaintiff appellant.

Aydlett & White, by Gerald F. White and Frank B. Aycock, Jr., Elizabeth City, for defendant appellee.


SHARP, Justice.

This appeal involves only the question whether plaintiff's evidence was sufficient to take the case to the jury on the issue of defendant's actionable negligence. It presents once again this frequently recurring situation to which there are no eyewitnesses: An automobile leaves the highway, upsets or collides with some object, and thereby causes personal injury or death. The doctrine of res ipsa loquitur is not applicable to such cases, for...

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