Wilkie v. Raleigh & C. F. Railroad
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil ActioN by C. D. Wilkie against tbe Raleigb and Cape Fear Railroad Company, beard by Judge Frederick Moore and a jury, at Spring Term, 1900, of Ci-iati-iam: Superior Court.
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Civil ActioN by C. D. Wilkie against tbe Raleigb and Cape Fear Railroad Company, beard by Judge Frederick Moore and a jury, at Spring Term, 1900, of Ci-iati-iam: Superior Court. Following is tbe complaint: Tbe plaintiff, complaining, alleges: 1. Tbat tbe defendant is a common carrier, owning and operating a railroad from a point near tbe city of Raleigb, N. 0., to a point some twenty miles therefrom in a southwesterly direction, and was so engaged in operating its railroad on tbe 13th day of April, 1899, having assumed the duties, burdens and obligations due to tbe public and to its employes…
1Opinion of the Court
FuecIíes, J.
This is an action for damages received by the alleged negligence of defendant company. The plaintiff was an employe of the defendant at the time of the injury complained of, and, while he did not occupy the position of a “section master,” his business was to do the work of a section master. He and a man'by the name of Moring each had a squad of hands that worked under them, doing such work. Rut neither he nor Moring had any separate part or section of the defendant’s road assigned to them, but they worked on any part of the road, under the directions of Mr. Mills, the President…
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