N.C.P.I.—Motor Vehicle 225.35

(This is not an instruction)

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 20-171 provides: "Every person riding an animal

or driving any animal drawing a vehicle upon a highway shall be subject

to the provisions of this article applicable to the driver of a vehicle,

except those provisions of the article which by their nature can have no

application."1

For example, in Watson v. Stallings, 270 N.C. 187, 154 S.E.2d 308

(1967) the Court found no error in the instructions of the trial judge,

applying to a pony rider the provisions of N.C. Gen. Stat. § 20-156

(entering a public highway from a private road or drive). The instructions

said, among other things: "It is the duty of a driver of an animal, or a

vehicle, coming out of a private driveway on the public highway, . . . to

stop and to yield the right of way to the motorist who is on the main-traveled highway."

While the instructions herein are drawn to deal with vehicles- most

of them with motor vehicles- they may be adapted, when applicable, to

riders or drivers of animals.