Legal Opinion · Dissent
Mercer v. . Powell
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Decided December 20, 1940PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1DissentSeawell, J.
CLARKSON and DEVIN, JJ., concur in dissent. Civil action for recovery of damage for alleged wrongful death. C. S., 160-161.
Plaintiff alleges that the intestate A. H. Mercer was killed on the early morning of 10 July, 1937, at around 3 o'clock, when an engine and train of defendants, and operated by G.S. Stephenson, engineer, ran over him at or near a point some three miles east of Laurinburg, known as Southerland Crossing, and that his death "was caused by the negligence and carelessness of the defendant receivers, and their said engineer, in that while plaintiff's intestate was in a…
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