Holeman v. Pensacola Shipbuilding Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
1Opinion of the CourtConnor, J.
Defendant’s assignment of error, for that its motion for judgment of nonsuit was not allowed by the court, cannot be sustained.
The testimony of all the witnesses, with respect to the condition of the truck, and the cause of plaintiffs injury, offered as evidence upon the first issue, if accepted by the jury, was sufficient to sustain the affirmative of the issue. The failure of defendant, by the exercise of due care, to supply plaintiff with a truck reasonably safe and suitable for the work which he was directed to do by his foreman, was negligence; there was evidence from which the jury…
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