Court Opinion

ID: 9810679
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 21:56:11.191236+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:40:09.136350
License: Public Domain

Clark, C. J.,
concurs in all that is so well said in the opinion of the Court, and upon the additional ground that the defendant did not give the plaintiff opportunity to alight upon the sidewalk on the opposite side of the car, where she would have been perfectly safe. The evidence-is that the track- on the right-hand side of the street going west, in which direction the ear was moving, ran close to the sidewalk, and that the plaintiff could have stepped off the step of the car upon this sidewalk. This would have been entirely safe. On the contrary, the conductor put her off on the left-hand side of the car, in the middle of the street, which she thus had to cross where two cars'per minute, on an average, were-running at a high rate of speed, and put her down immediately in front of a car which was approaching at the rate of 30 to 35 miles an hour, according to defendant’s conductor.
The defendant contends that it was unsafe to put her off on the right-hand side of the street, where the track was close along the sidewalk, because the telegraph poles were on that side, as if telegraph poles 60 yards apart, and standing still, would be more of a menace to a passenger getting off from a standing car than putting her off on the left-hand side in the maelstrom of moving cars, shooting by two to the minute, or “at least 100 per hour,” going at a rapid rate on an asphalt roadbed— the smoothest and best road in the State (from Greensboro to High Point) — and immediately in front of the car which struck the plaintiff and which, according to the defendant’s evidence, was moving 35 miles per hour, which was nearly 800 -yards a minute.