Bumgardner v. Southern Railway Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN by 0. B. Bumgardner against the Southern Railway Company, heard by Judge Walter H. Neal and a jury; at August Term, 1902, of the Superior Court of Iredell County. From a judgment for the plaintiff, the defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtMontgomery, J.
This action was brought by the plaintiff to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been received by him through the negligence of the defendant. In his complaint the plaintiff alleges that while he was en gaged in bis duties as brakeman on a very long freight train of the defendant the train became uncoupled, and upon the sections coming together again with great violence he was thrown to- the ground and upon the track, and received dangerous and painful injuries. The allegations of negligence were a lack of sufficient number of employees to manage the train, and that the…
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