Shinault v. Creed
This text of 92 S.E.2d 787 (Shinault v. Creed) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Supreme Court of North Carolina primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
No negligence is presumed from the mere fact that plaintiff’s intestate was run over, and killed by the defendant. The evidence, when considered in the light most favorable to the plaintiff, and giving to him the benefit of every reasonable inference to be drawn therefrom, fails to disclose any negligence on defendant’s part, and, in particular, fails to show that the defendant by the exercise of reasonable care could have discovered the perilous plight of the deceased and his incapacity to escape therefrom before he ran over him.
Thé judgment of nonsuit below is
Affirmed.
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92 S.E.2d 787, 244 N.C. 217, 1956 N.C. LEXIS 674, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/shinault-v-creed-nc-1956.