Tate v. Standard Mirror Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by defendants from Lane, J., at November Term, 1913, of Forsyth. Action to recover damages for injuries caused by tbe negligence of defendant.
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Appeal by defendants from Lane, J., at November Term, 1913, of Forsyth. Action to recover damages for injuries caused by tbe negligence of defendant. Tbe plaintiff alleged and offered evidence tending to prove tbe following case, tbe truth of which must be assumed, as tbe jury answered tbe issues in bis favor: He was employed by tbe defendant as an .operator of a glass smoothing stone, run by a quarter-turn belt from a pulley on tbe spindle, upon the top of which the stone was' attached to a pulley on the main-line shaft, which was some 20 inches from the floor and 8 or 10 feet from the…
1Opinion of the Court
WalKER, J.,
after-stating the case: This case, as it appears to us, even under a critical examination of the rulings and charge of the court, has been tried in exact accordance with well settled legal principles, so much so that the record presents little more than the decision by the jury of a question of fact adversely to the appellant.
We have so often stated the rules applicable to the relation of master and servant, employer and employee, that there is nothing more to say without vain and useless reiteration. ' The issue between the parties in this case was clear-cut. It involved two…
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