GRAVES v. HARRINGTON

No. 695SC541.

171 S.E.2d 218 (1969)

6 N.C. App. 717

Ruby GRAVES v. Charles M. HARRINGTON and C. M. Harrington, Jr. trading and doing business as Hyman Supply Company.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

December 17, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Aaron Goldberg and Herbert P. Scott, by Aaron Goldberg, Wilmington, for plaintiff.

Poisson & Barnhill, by M. V. Barnhill, Jr., Wilson, for defendants.


BROCK, Judge.

Defendants assign as error the refusal of the trial judge to grant defendants' motion for judgment of involuntary nonsuit. Defendants contend that plaintiff's evidence discloses that she was contributorily negligent as a matter of law. We do not agree.

Whether, under the circumstances as disclosed by the evidence, plaintiff, in the exercise of that degree of care which a reasonably prudent person would exercise for his own safety, could or should...

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