Jones v. Town of Statesville
Supreme Court of North Carolina
MotioN to remove a cause pending in Catawba Superior Court to the Superior Court of Iredell county, heard before Montgomery, Judge, at January Term, 1887, of Catawba Superior Court.
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MotioN to remove a cause pending in Catawba Superior Court to the Superior Court of Iredell county, heard before Montgomery, Judge, at January Term, 1887, of Catawba Superior Court. The plaintiff brought this action in the Superior Court of the county of Catawba, to recover damages alleged to have been occasioned by injuries sustained through the negligence of defendant’s officers and agents, in failing to provide lights along its streets to enable persons passing along and over them in the night time, to see the pit into which the plaintiff fell, &c. The defendant is a municipal corporation,…
1Opinion of the Court
MekriMON, J.,
(after stating the facts). The statute (The Code, §191, par. 2,) provides, that actions must be tried in the county where the cause of action, or some part thereof, arose, subject to the power of the Court to remove the same for trial, for cause as prescribed by law, if the same be “ against a public officer, or person especially appointed to execute his duties, for an act done by him by virtue of his office; or against a person who by his command or in his aid, shall do anything touching the duties of such officer.”
And it further provides, (The Code, §195, par. l,)that: “ The…
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