Case ID: nc_222/html/0751-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

MRS. BESSIE POPE KORNEGAY, Administratrix of R. C. KORNEGAY, v. D. C. WILLIAMS, JR., Trading as WILLIAMS LUMBER COMPANY.
    (Filed 14 October, 1942.)
    Appeal by plaintiff from Grady, Emergency Judge, at March Term, 1942, of WayNe.
    
      J. Faison Thomson and J. T. Flythe for plaintiff, appellant.
    
    
      Boyall, Gosney & Smith for defendant, appellee.
    
   Per Curiam.

This is an action for the alleged wrongful death of the plaintiff’s intestate, who was killed when struck by a trailer loaded with lumber and drawn by an automobile of the defendant upon Breazeale Avenue (U. S. No. 117), near the intersection with Main Street (N. C. No. 55), in the town of Mount Olive.

The Court being of the opinion that the case is governed by the principles enunciated in Pack v. Auman, 220 N. C., 704, 18 S. E. (2d), 247, and Mitchell v. Melts, 220 N. C., 793, 18 S. E. (2d), 406, the demurrer to the evidence was properly sustained and the judgment as in case of nonsuit was properly entered.

Affirmed.