Ridge v. City of High Point
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN, tried before Adams, J., and a jury, at March Term, 1918, of Guilfoed. Plaintiff seeks to recover damages for the death of her husband, Albert L. Ridge, which she alleges was caused by the negligence of the two defendants. There was another defendant, the N. 0. Public Service Company, but a nonsuit was entered as to it.
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ActioN, tried before Adams, J., and a jury, at March Term, 1918, of Guilfoed. Plaintiff seeks to recover damages for the death of her husband, Albert L. Ridge, which she alleges was caused by the negligence of the two defendants. There was another defendant, the N. 0. Public Service Company, but a nonsuit was entered as to it. The allegation of negligence is that the Tate Furniture Company piled lumber in Perry Street so near the track of the railroad company as to make it dangerous to passing cars and those operating them, and that this was also forbidden by an ordinance of the city of High…
1Opinion of the Court
Walker, J.,
after stating the case: The defendant Tate Furniture Company asked for certain special instructions, and the court, we think, gave these which were correct, or such parts of them as were proper, in the general charge to the jury. We cannot see why, in any phase of the evidence, the defendants were not jointly liable to the plaintiff for the death of her intestate, which was plainly caused by their united and wrongful act. We cannot understand why this case, upon its uncontro-verted facts or upon the evidence, which, in this respect, bears all one way, is not brought thereby within…
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