Matthews v. Blackwood Lumber Co.

Pees Gotham.

Plaintiff bases bis cause of action on a joint tort alleged to have been committed by tbe defendant, Blackwood Lumber Company, a nonresident corporation, and its “swamp” foreman, Babe Fortner, a citizen and resident of Jackson County, North Carolina.

In tbe petition to remove, filed by tbe nonresident corporation, it is alleged with particularity that T. A. Bateman, and not Babe Fortner, was foreman in charge of tbe defendant’s camp operations at tbe time of plaintiff’s injury, that J. M. Price, and not Babe Fortner, was tbe “swamp” foreman in immediate charge of tbe work; that tbe…