Sawyer v. Railroad
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN by A. Sawyer-against Norfolk and Southern Railroad, beard by Judge Walter U. Neal and a jury, at the March Term, 19.06, of the Superior Court of Camden. The pleadings show the contentions of the parties. Plaintiff testified in his own behalf, as follows: “I reside in this county, near Sawyer’s Creek. Lived in this county all my life and am forty-two years of age.
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ActioN by A. Sawyer-against Norfolk and Southern Railroad, beard by Judge Walter U. Neal and a jury, at the March Term, 19.06, of the Superior Court of Camden. The pleadings show the contentions of the parties. Plaintiff testified in his own behalf, as follows: “I reside in this county, near Sawyer’s Creek. Lived in this county all my life and am forty-two years of age. Have been engaged in various pursuits, mostly merchandising, farming, selling guano, and attending to shipping truck at Belcross. Before April, 1904,1 had been working for defendant, helping to load truck for two or three…
1Opinion of the CourtHoke, J.
There is some .authority for the position that corporations cannot in any case be held civilly liable for slander. And it has also been held, and is so stated in several of the. text-books, that they are only SO' responsible when it affirmatively appears that they expressly authorized the very words which form the basis of the charge. The first position does not rest on any very satisfactory reason and has been generally rejected; and the second, Ave think, can only be received with much qualification.
It is now well established that private corporations under certain circumstances will be…
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