OAKES v. JAMES

No. 8318SC767.

315 S.E.2d 802 (1984)

Walter Lee OAKES and S & W Motor Lines, Inc. v. Ernest Clifton JAMES and the City of Greensboro.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

June 5, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alexander, Ralston, Pell & Speckhard by Stanley E. Speckhard and Donald K. Speckhard, Greensboro, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Nichols, Caffrey, Hill, Evans & Murrelle by Kenneth Kyre, Jr., Greensboro, for defendants-appellees.


WEBB, Judge.

If the jury could not reasonably conclude that the negligence of Ernest Clifton James was a proximate cause of the accident or if all the evidence so clearly establishes that Walter Lee Oakes' negligence was a proximate cause of the accident that no other reasonable conclusion is possible, the dismissal at the end of the plaintiffs' evidence must be affirmed. See Ragland v. Moore, 299 N.C. 360,

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