Sessoms v. Atlantic Coast Line R. Co.

• Decision Date: 01 November 1935
• Docket Number: 396.
• Citation: 182 S.E. 112,208 N.C. 844
• Parties: SESSOMS v. ATLANTIC COAST LINE R. CO.
• Court: North Carolina Supreme Court

182 S.E. 112

208 N.C. 844

SESSOMS v. ATLANTIC COAST LINE R. CO.

No. 396.

Supreme Court of North Carolina

November 1, 1935

Appeal from Superior Court, Sampson County; Parker, Judge.

Action by Janet Sessoms against the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff appeals.

Affirmed.

Where court is evenly divided in opinion, judgment of lower court is affirmed and stands as decision in case, but not as a precedent.

Civil action to recover damages for an alleged negligent injury resulting from crossing collision when the automobile in which plaintiff was riding as a guest-returning from a dance at White Lake-was driven into a box car of defendant's freight train standing across the highway at Garland, N. C., at about 2:05 a. m. on the morning of May 16, 1933.

The plaintiff invokes the doctrine announced in Dickey v. Atlantic Coast L. R. Co., 196 N.C. 726, 147 S.E. 15; Dudley v. Atlantic Coast L. R. Co., 180 N.C. 34, 103 S.E. 905; Blum v. Southern R. Co., 187 N.C. 640, 122 S.E. 562; Leathers v. Blackwell Tobacco Co., 144 N.C. 330, 57 S.E. 11, 9 L. R. A. (N. S.) 349; Duffy v. Atlantic & N.C. R. Co., 144 N.C. 26, 56 S.E. 557; Alexander v. Richmond & D. R. Co., 112 N.C. 720, 16 S.E. 896.

The defendant relies upon the decisions in Baker v. Atlantic Coast L. R. Co., 205 N.C. 329, 171 S.E. 342; Batchelor v. Atlantic Coast L. R. Co., 196 N.C. 84, 144 S.E. 542, 60 A. L. R. 1091; Eller v. North Carolina R. Co., 200 N.C. 527, 157 S.E. 800; Goldstein v. Atlantic Coast L. R. Co., 203 N.C. 166, 165 S.E. 337; Herman v. Atlantic Coast L. R. Co., 197 N.C. 718, 150 S.E. 361; Weston v. Southern R. Co., 194 N.C. 210, 139 S.E. 237.

From a judgment of nonsuit entered at the close of all the evidence, the plaintiff appeals, assigning errors.

Butler & Butler, of Clinton, for appellant.

Graham & Grady, of Clinton, and Carr, Poisson & James, of Wilmington, for appellee.

PER CURIAM.

The court being equally divided in opinion, BROGDEN, J., not sitting, the judgment of the superior court is affirmed in accordance with the usual practice in such cases, and stands as the decision in this case without becoming a precedent. Smith v. Powell, 208 N.C. ---, 181 S.E. 325; Sondey v. Yates, 208 N.C. ---, 181 S.E. 326.

Affirmed.