Case ID: nc_201/html/0841-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Peb CueiaM.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

J. J. WOOTTON v. R. D. McGINNIS and H. H. CANNON.
    (Filed 9 December, 1931.)
    Appeal by defendant, H. H. Cannon, from Harding, J., at January Term, 1931, of GastoN.
    No error.
    Tbis is an action to recover damages resulting from collisions between an automobile owned and driven by tbe plaintiff, and automobiles owned and driven by tbe defendants. Tbe collisions occurred on tbe "Wilkinson Boulevard, a State Highway, between tbe cities of Gastonia and Charlotte.
    Plaintiff’s automobile, while traveling along Wilkinson Boulevard, from Gastonia to Charlotte, was first struck and injured by tbe automobile owned and driven by tbe defendant, E. D. McGinnis. Tbis defendant drove bis automobile from a side road into Wilkinson Boulevard, while plaintiff’s automobile was passing tbe intersection of tbe side road with tbe Boulevard. The jury found tbat tbe collision between plaintiff’s automobile and tbe automobile owned and driven by tbe defendant, E. D. McGinnis, was caused by tbe negligence of said defendant, and that plaintiff did not contribute to tbe injuries to his automobile by his negligence. Plaintiff’s damages resulting from this collision were assessed at $75.00.
    As the result of the collision between plaintiff’s automobile and the automobile owned and driven by the defendant, R. D. McGinnis, plaintiff lost control of his automobile, which, however, proceeded along the Boulevard in the direction of the city of Charlotte. It was then struck and injured by the automobile owned and driven by the defendant, II. H. Cannon, which was approaching plaintiff’s automobile on the Boulevard, from the direction of Charlotte. As the result of this collision, plaintiff sustained injuries to his person. The jury found that the collision between plaintiff’s automobile and the automobile owned and driven by the defendant, H. II. Cannon, was caused by the negligence of said defendant and that plaintiff did not contribute to his injuries by his negligence. Plaintiff’s damages resulting from this collision were assessed at $1,100.
    From judgment that plaintiff recover of the defendant, R. D. McGin-nis, the sum of $75.00, and from the defendant, H. H. Cannon, the sum of $1,100, the defendant, H. H. Cannon, appealed to the Supreme Court.
    P. W. Garland for plaintiff.
    
    
      J. Laurence Jones, J. L. DeLaney and Henry E. Fisher for defendant.
    
   Peb CueiaM.

Assignments of error relied upon by defendant, H. H. Cannon, on his appeal to this Court, cannot- be sustained. There was evidence sufficient to- sustain the allegations of the complaint. This evidence was submitted to the jury by the court in a charge which is free from error. We do not deem it necessary to write an opinion in this appeal. The judgment is therefore affirmed without an opinion. O. S., 1416.

No error.