Insurance Co. v. Railroad
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN by the Firemen’s Insurance Company and others against .the Seaboard Air Line Eailway heard by Judge B. F. Long, and a jury, at the October Term 1904, of the Superior Court of Wake County. Plaintiffs alleged that on the 19th day of October, 1902 certain cotton, upon which plaintiff companies had issued policies of insurance, was burned by the negligence of the defendant’s agents and servants.
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ActioN by the Firemen’s Insurance Company and others against .the Seaboard Air Line Eailway heard by Judge B. F. Long, and a jury, at the October Term 1904, of the Superior Court of Wake County. Plaintiffs alleged that on the 19th day of October, 1902 certain cotton, upon which plaintiff companies had issued policies of insurance, was burned by the negligence of the defendant’s agents and servants. That by reason of the destruction of said cotton, plaintiffs were compelled to pay the value thereof; that the owners of said cotton transferred and assigned to the plaintiffs all rights of action…
1Opinion of the CourtConnor, J.
after stating the facts: In the trial of this cause it became material to show at what time the defendant’s wrecking train No. 371 reached Hamlet, the station on defendant’s road, at which the cotton was burned. Defendant introduced one C. Lane, who testified that he was employed by the defendant road as train dispatcher on 19 October, 1902; that it was his duty to keep a record of the arrival and departure of all trains at all telegraph stations; that the record was made and kept on the train sheet; at the time trains arrived at and left stations; the operator at such stations notified the…
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