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265 N.C. 551

144 S.E.2d 594

Robinette v. Wike

Supreme Court of North Carolina

Decided November 3, 1965

Supreme Court of North Carolina · decided 1965-11-03

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

“[t]he credibility of the testimony and the propriety of drawing therefrom inferences which it will support were for the jury. . ..”

quoted by 2 later decisions, including 38 N.C. App. 742 - Beal v. Dellinger, 195 N.C. App. 326 - Vestal v. CAPITAL MARBLE CREATIONS, INC.

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1965-11-03

How this case has been cited

Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 2009

14 state decisions

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Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

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*553 Per Curiam.

¶1 In passing upon the plaintiff’s motion for judgment of nonsuit as to the defendant’s counterclaim, all of the evidence, including that offered by the plaintiff, must be interpreted in the light most favorable to the defendant, since, as to the counterclaim, the defendant is in the position of a plaintiff seeking relief. So interpreted, the plaintiff’s own testimony and his own statement to the investigating patrolmen are sufficient to support a finding that he reentered the highway from the private driveway without maintaining a proper lookout, when the automobile of the defendant was in plain view only a short distance away and that he drove at least a part of his truck over the center of the road and into the defendant’s lane of travel. There is no material variance between this evidence and the allegations of the counterclaim as to where and how the collision occurred. G.S. 1-168. The plaintiff can hardly contend that he was misled by his own testimony and statements. His motion for judgment of nonsuit was, therefore, properly denied.

¶2 The credibility of the testimony and the propriety of drawing therefrom inferences which it will support were for the jury, who have considered it and decided in favor of the defendant. There was no error in the denial of the motion to set aside the verdict.

¶3 Although the alleged errors in the instructions of the court to the jury appear to have been abandoned in the brief of the plaintiff, we have considered them and find no merit therein.

¶4 No error.

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