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  "name": "ED RICE, Plaintiff v. WILLIAM RIGSBY, Defendant",
  "name_abbreviation": "Rice v. Rigsby",
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    "parties": [
      "ED RICE, Plaintiff v. WILLIAM RIGSBY, Defendant."
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        "text": "Per Curiam.\nThe testimony of both plaintiff and defendant that defendant was neither drunk nor under the influence of any intoxicant at the time his automobile overturned and injured plaintiff is set at naught by the allegation in plaintiff\u2019s complaint that defendant was operating his motor vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicating beverage and that such operation was the proximate cause of his injuries. The opinion in Davis v. Rigsby, supra, is controlling here. The motion for nonsuit should have been allowed.\nReversed.",
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    "attorneys": [
      "A. E. Leake for plaintiff.",
      "Williams, Williams <fc Morris for defendant."
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    "head_matter": "ED RICE, Plaintiff v. WILLIAM RIGSBY, Defendant.\n(Filed 29 April, 1964.)\nAppeal by defendant from Huskins, J., August 1963 Session of Mad-ISON.\nThis case is the companion to Davis v. Rigsby, ante 684. The allegations in the two complaints, except as to the damages, are identical. The two cases were consolidated for trial below but, on appeal, two substantially identical transcripts were filed and each was docketed as a separate case. Reference is made to the opinion in Davis v. Rigsby, supra, for the details of pleadings and evidence omitted herein.\nUpon the trial, plaintiff Rice testified that he was sixty-eight years old and a second cousin of the twenty-four year old defendant. Before going to the Marshall Skating Rink the two had gone to Pike\u2019s place just across the Buncombe County line and purchased \u201ctwo six-packs of small cans of beer.\u201d At the skating rink each drank three cans during the evening. Plaintiff insisted that he himself drank only three cans. He said he did not actually know how many defendant had consumed but he did not act drunk and \u201cwas not too far along\u201d when they left with Davis and Johnson at 10:00 p.m. All the beer had been consumed by someone though plaintiff insisted that defendant was neither drunk nor under the influence of an intoxicant. On an adverse examination conducted prior to the trial, plaintiff had testified that he and the defendant together drank twelve cans of beer prior to the accident; that he himself felt the beer he had consumed; and that he knew the defendant was under the influence.\nPlaintiff\u2019s version of events immediately preceding the upset was that defendant entered the Marshall Bypass from the Walnut Creek Road, an intersection controlled by .a stop sign, at a speed of from sixty to sixty-five miles an hour. Then, for the first time, he said, \u201cBill you had better slow down, you are.going to kill us.\u201d This was \u201ca thought or two\u201d before the car turned over. Defendant was called as a witness by plaintiff and, after testifying that he had had nothing at all to drink that night, said that at the time he ran off the road \u201cEd Rice was cutting up in my car. He was punching at me, hitting me on the shoulder and ribs, and I reckon he was having fun.\u201d\nAt the conclusion of plaintiff\u2019s evidence, which was all the evidence, defendant\u2019s motion for nonsuit was overruled. The jury answered the issues of negligence, contributory negligence, and damages in favor of the plaintiff. From judgment entered on the verdict defendant appealed assigning as error the denial of his motion for judgment as of nonsuit.\nA. E. Leake for plaintiff.\nWilliams, Williams <fc Morris for defendant."
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