WILCOX v. GLOVER MOTORS, INC.

No. 116.

153 S.E.2d 76 (1967)

269 N.C. 473

Hugh WILCOX v. GLOVER MOTORS, INC., and Doran Kent Anders. Juanita WILSON v. GLOVER MOTORS, INC., and Doran Kent Anders.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

March 1, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robinson & Randle, Jacksonville, Fla., Parker, McGuire & Baley, Asheville, for plaintiff appellant Wilcox.

John C. Cheesborough and G. Edison Hill, Asheville, for plaintiff appellant Wilson.

Van Winkle, Walton, Buck & Wall, by O. E. Starnes, Jr., Lee & Allen, by H. Kenneth Lee, Asheville, for defendant appellees.


LAKE, Justice.

The principal contention of the defendants, with reference to the issue of negligence by Anders, was that Anders was faced with a sudden emergency due to the failure of the brakes on the Glover car which he was driving. The plaintiffs assign as error portions of the charge to the jury with reference to the doctrine of sudden emergency. We find in these instructions, when read in context, no error prejudicial to the plaintiffs.

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