COLLINGWOOD v. WINSTON-SALEM SOUTHBOUND RY. CO.

No. 606.

59 S.E.2d 584 (1950)

232 N.C. 192

COLLINGWOOD v. WINSTON-SALEM SOUTHBOUND RY. CO.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

May 24, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. C. Turner, Albemarle, for plaintiff appellee.

R. L. Smith & Sons, Albemarle, and Craige & Craige, Winston-Salem, for defendant appellant.


DEVIN, Justice.

The plaintiff's evidence was sufficient to carry the case to the jury on the issue of defendant's negligence, but it is contended that defendant's motion for judgment of nonsuit should have been sustained for the reason that the contributory negligence of the plaintiff conclusively appears.

However, we think the issue of contributory negligence was also one for the jury. Coltrain v. Atlantic Coast Line R. R. Co., 216 N.C. 263, 4 S.E.2d 853...

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