Nail v. . Brown
Supreme Court of North Carolina
■ AotioN for personal injury, tried before Ward, J., and a jury, at May Term, 1908, of Forsyth. Issues were submitted and answered by tbe jury, wbo found tbe first issue, relating to tbe alleged negligence of tbe defendants, in tbe negative. From tbe judgment rendered tbe plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
Tbe plaintiff, while working in the factory of the defendants, was injured by the breaking of a belt, causing one of the books wbicb fastened the belt together to strike him on the bead and embed itself therein. Tbe belt was running parallel with the ceiling, some four or five feet above the bead of the plaintiff and some twenty feet from where be was standing. "While the machinery was in motion, in the usual manner, the belt parted, with a report like the sound of a gun, the belt boobs flying in several directions, one of them striking the plaintiff. It was the duty of the plaintiff to run…
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