Norris v. . Fowler
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil ActioN tried, on appeal from a justice’s judgment, at Fall Term, 1880, of Harnett. Superior Court, before Avery, J. ■ ■ ' ,- Appeal by plaintiff.
1Opinion of the CourtRuffin, J.
A single exception disposes of this case. The plaintiff sues to recover forty-five dollars, the value of a bale of cotton burnt while in the defendant’s cotton gin, or press, and seeks to hold the defendant liable as -an insurer, and also for negligence. .
As a witness on behalf of himself.the plaintiff testified that he carried his cotton to defendant’s gin in November, 1879, to be ginned and packed, and that the gin was run by a steam engine, which was also the motive power for a saw mill, and that he lost 1180 pounds of his cotton worth $45.
He further testified that the defendant afterwards…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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- Delauriere v. EmisonSupreme Court of the United States · 1854
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