Edge v. Atlantic Coast Line Railway Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal from Quion, J., at tbe April Term, 1910, of Edge-combe. Civil action to recover damages for physical injury caused by alleged negligence on part of defendant company. On motion at tbe close of plaintiffs testimony, there was judgment of nonsuit, and plaintiff excepted and appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtHoke, J.
There was allegation with testimony on part of plaintiff tending to show that on or about 28 September, 1908, plaintiff was in employ of defendant company on its yards at South Eocky Mount, N. C., as “handy man or messenger,” and in the line of his duty was sent by his foreman or boss, with urgent directions to hurry, to the storeroom or roundhouse of defendant with a requisition for a keg of nuts or bolts. • The path to the roundhouse led over the tracks of defendant company and on one of these tracks and across the path was a line of box cars, 18 in number, coupled together, five of them…
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