Myers v. Lumber Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN by O. A. Myers against the Concord Lumber Company, heard by Judge Geo. E. Bro vn, Jr., and a jury, at January Term 1901, of the Superior Court of Cabarrus County. Erom a judgment for the plaintiff, the defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtMontgomery, J.
An employer owes to his employee the duty to be reasonably careful, to provide sound and safe appliances and machinery, and also to see that the place prepared for him in which he is to do his w'ork, and the ways provided for getting to and from it, be reasonably safe. Chesson v. Lumber Co., 118 N. C., 59.
The plaintiff, a servant of the defendant^ complains that the defendant neglected and failed to use such care and forethought as a reasonably prudent man would have done under the circumstances at the time of his injury by the defendant’s machinery.
The defendant excepted to the following…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Columbia & Puget Sound Railroad v. HawthorneSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
- Morse v. Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1883
- Chesson v. John L. Roper Lumber Co.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1896
- Lowe v. . ElliottSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1891
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- Shaw v. North Carolina Public-Service Corp.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1915
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