Purnell v. Raleigh & Gaston Railroad
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil ACTION for damages for injuries resulting in the death of plaintiff’s intestate, tried before Timberldke, J., and a jury, at May Term, 1897, of Halifax Superior Court. The facts appear in the opinion. There was a verdict for the plaintiff for $5000 and defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
Furches, J.:
Plaintiff’s intestate was run over and killed by a freight train of the defendant company, and this is an action for damages.
*834There was evidence tending to sho w th at defendant has, and maintains a large shed, 275 feet long and 80 feet wide in the thickly settled and the business part of the town of Weldon; that under this shed there are as many as five railroad tracks, and the trains and cars of four different roads pass under and through this shed; this shed was used as a depot for these different roads, where they received and discharged their passengers, and was a place of…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Lloyd v. Albemarle & Raleigh R. R.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1896
- Mesic v. Atlantic & North Carolina RailroadSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1897
- Stanley v. Durham & Northern RailroadSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1897
- Henderson v. . CrouseSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1860
- Sugg v. . WatsonSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1888