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Watts v. Cartee

Supreme Court of North Carolina
Feb 1, 1951
63 S.E.2d 555 (N.C. 1951)

Opinion

Filed 28 February, 1951.

APPEAL by defendants from Patton, Special Judge, August Term, 1950, of BUNCOMBE. No error.

Horton Horton and Joseph B. Huff for plaintiff, appellee.

Smathers Meekins for defendants, appellants.


This was an action to recover damages for a personal injury alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendants.

The evidence tended to show that on the night of 11 July, 1949, the plaintiff, then thirteen years of age, was riding a bicycle traveling east on Haywood Road in the City of Asheville when and where he was struck and injured by a taxicab traveling in the opposite direction, the cab belonging to defendant Taxi Company and being driven by defendant Cartee, an employee of his codefendant. There was verdict and judgment for plaintiff, and defendants appealed.


The only assignment of error brought forward by the defendants' appeal is the refusal of the court to allow their motion for judgment of nonsuit. An examination of the evidence shown by the record leads us to the conclusion that it was sufficient to withstand a motion for nonsuit, and that the case was properly submitted to the jury.

In the trial we find

No error.


Summaries of

Watts v. Cartee

Supreme Court of North Carolina
Feb 1, 1951
63 S.E.2d 555 (N.C. 1951)
Case details for

Watts v. Cartee

Case Details

Full title:HAROLD WATTS, A MINOR, BY HIS NEXT FRIEND, FRANK L. WATTS, v. CHARLES R…

Court:Supreme Court of North Carolina

Date published: Feb 1, 1951

Citations

63 S.E.2d 555 (N.C. 1951)
63 S.E.2d 555