Court Opinion

ID: 9808159
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 20:29:19.938735+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:09:32.059168
License: Public Domain

Staot, C. J.,
dissenting: Joe Campbell had twenty-five minutes to go seven city blocks in a southerly direction, eat his supper, get some change on the way, if he could, and return by 5 o’clock to relieve Roger' Williams. His principal mission was to get his supper and “Ijiurry back”; changing the bills was only incidental. The collision occurred an hour later, out in the country, four or five miles north of the filling, station. In the meantime, Joe had taken two women on a “joy ride,” going by the airport, two miles north of the City of Wilmington, and thence out into the country. He was drinking. To say that he was. still in pursuit of change is “a little the ’rise of the fact,” nowithstand-ing his statements, and makes Brobdingnagian that which is hardly Lilliputian. At any rate, Joe had greatly exceeded his instructions. He was not about his master’s business at the time of plaintiff’s injury. Martin v. Bus Line, 197 N. C., 720, 150 S. E., 501; VanLandingham v. Sewing Machine Co., 207 N. C., 355, 177 S. E., 126.