Barnes v. . Utility Co.

The plaintiffs were duly appointed and qualified as administrators of the estate of Leon H. Chestnut and sued the defendant corporations jointly.

A nonsuit was entered at the close of plaintiffs' evidence as to the Carolina Power Light Company, no appeal was taken, and it is not necessary to consider its defenses.

Plaintiffs allege: That on 13 November, 1924, and for more than a year prior thereto, the plaintiffs' intestate was employed by the defendants as a carpenter, at Phoenix, Chatham County, North Carolina, at which place the defendants were erecting a "steam plant" to be used by the…