Turner v. . the N.C. R. R. Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Case, tried before Tourgee, J., at Spring Term 1869 of the-Superior Court of Alamance. The plaintiff showed that at the time of the occurrence (April 21st, 1865) he was a citizen of Virginia, and an officer of the-Confederate army; and that upon the fall of Richmond, a few days previously, he had escaped from a Confederate hospital, there, without having been captured or paroled; that he came-from Richmond to the neighborhood of the Company Shops in Alamance County, and on…
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Case, tried before Tourgee, J., at Spring Term 1869 of the-Superior Court of Alamance. The plaintiff showed that at the time of the occurrence (April 21st, 1865) he was a citizen of Virginia, and an officer of the-Confederate army; and that upon the fall of Richmond, a few days previously, he had escaped from a Confederate hospital, there, without having been captured or paroled; that he came-from Richmond to the neighborhood of the Company Shops in Alamance County, and on the 21st of April, 1865, took passage' in a train belonging to the defendant for Greensboro; and that, his object in…
1Opinion of the Court
Read®, J.
The Court in which the plaintiff seeks redress for an alleged injury, is a Court of the Government of one of the States of the United States. The plaintiff was engaged in a rebellion against the Government of the United States, .and having for a time absented himself from the service of the Rebellion, he contracted with the defendant to convey him to the field.of active operations, that he might report for such service again; and he complains that the defendant was guilty of negligence in transporting him, and that thereby he was his claim, and help him to redress,
If the Rebellion…
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