Lassiter v. Railroad Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN by H. C. Lassiter, administrator, against tbe Norfolk and Carolina Eailroad Company, beard by Judge W. B. Council, at March Term, 1904, of tbe Superior Court of NoRti-iampton County. From a judgment for tbe defendant tbe plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
The complaint is a sufficient statement of the facts constituting a cause of action (if the death had occurred in this State) for negligently causing the death of plaintiff's intestate by ordering him to go between cars not equipped with improved couplers to uncouple said cars, in obeying which order he was run over and killed. The defendant demurred on the ground that the complaint disclosed that "the intestate came to his death in the State of Virginia by reason (90) of the alleged wrongful acts of the defendant, but does not allege that an action for wrongful death may be maintained in…
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