1. Automobiles 17 — Where two automobiles approach an intersection at approximately the same time, the driver on the right has the right of way, notwithstanding that the other driver may have entered the intersection a hairsbreadth before him. G.S. 20-155 (a).
2. Negligence 30; Trial 54 — Where a passenger sues both drivers involved in a collision at an intersection he is not entitled as a matter of right to have a verdict exculpating both drivers set aside for inconsistency.
PER CURIAM.
The conclusion is inescapable that the two defendants approached the intersection at approximately the same time. Jackson, being on Brown's right, had the right of way notwithstanding Brown may have entered the intersection a hairsbreadth before him. G.S. 20-155 (a); Yost v. Hall, 233 N.C. 463, 64 S.E.2d 554. Hence, the jury's verdict exonerating Jackson was clearly correct. Indeed, defendants Jackson and Western Union were entitled to their motion of nonsuit. Carr v. Lee, 249 N.C. 712, 107 S.E.2d 544.
Plaintiff contends, however, that one of the defendants was necessarily negligent and that the verdict exculpating both was manifestly so inconsistent that the judge committed error when he declined to set it aside. Conceding Brown's negligence, in order to recover against him, plaintiff was required to satisfy the jury by the greater weight of the evidence that his negligence proximately caused the back injury of which he complained. The judge instructed the jury as to Brown's duty to yield the right of way to Jackson. The weight and credibility of plaintiff's testimony, as well as the question of proximate cause, was for the twelve. The evidence in this case was not complicated. It simply failed to convince the jury that plaintiff was injured as he alleged.
We have examined all the assignments of error and prejudice justifying a new trial does not appear.
No error.