Tribble v. Swinson, 525.
Decision Date | 04 May 1938 |
Docket Number | No. 525.,525. |
Citation | 196 S.E. 820,213 N.C. 550 |
Parties | TRIBBLE . v. SWINSON et al. |
Court | North Carolina Supreme Court |
Appeal from Superior Court, Mecklenburg County; H. E. Olive, Special Judge.
Action by Maude Tribble against H. P. Swinson, trading and doing business as the Swinson Food Products Company, and another, to recover for injuries sustained in an automobile collision. From a judgment of nonsuit as to the named defendant, the plaintiff appeals.
Affirmed.
Civil action to recover damage for injury by alleged actionable negligence.
On August 20, 1933, plaintiff was injured in a collision at a street intersection in the city of Charlotte, between an automobile owned and operated by Mrs. H. C. Edwards, in which plaintiff was riding, and an automobile operated by the defendant, Neal Vita. Plaintiff alleges and offered evidence tending to show that her injury was proximately caused by the negligence of the defendant Vita. She further alleges in substance that at the time of the collision Vita was operating an automobile owned by the defendant Swinson; that Vita was the agent and employee of Swinson; and that he was acting in the scope of his employment, and in furtherance of the business of the defendant Swinson. Defendants denied these allegations. The only evidence offered by plaintiff bearing on the issue thus raised is the testimony of Mrs. Edwards, who said in part:
At the close of plaintiff's evidence, motion of defendant Swinson for judgment as of nonsuit was allowed, and plaintiff excepted. Thereupon, plaintiff took a volun-tary nonsuit as to the defendant Vita. From judgment as of nonsuit as to defendant Swinson, plaintiff appealed to the Supreme Court, and...
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