Tritt v. Gloucester Lumber Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by defendant -from Shaw, J., and a jury, at December Term, 1921, of TeaNstlvaNia. Action to recover damages for negligently causing tbe death of ■plaintiff’s intestate. There was denial of liability and plea of contributory negligence, and on issues submitted the jury rendered a verdict for plaintiff assessing the damages.
1Per curiam
There were facts in evidence tending to show that on or about 4 June, 1921, plaintiff’s intestate, an employee of defendant company on the logging train in said county, while engaged in his duties .as'brakeman on one of defendant’s trains, fell, or was thrown or jolted off said train and run over and killed. There was testimony on the part of plaintiff tending to show that the falling from the train and the con•sequent death was caused by an unusual, unnecessary, violent jerking of the train, and also because of the defective condition of the roadbed at the place of the injury. There was…
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