Pinnix v. City of Durham
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN by A. W. Pinnix, by bis next friend, Alexander Walker, against tbe City of Durham, beard by Judge Walter H. Neal and a jury, at January Term, 1902, of tbe Superior-Court of DubhaM County. Erom a judgment for tbe defendant, tbe plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtFurches, C. J.
On the 23d of November, 1900, about 9 o’clock at night, tbe plaintiff received an injury which, be alleges, was caused by tbe negligence of tbe defendant, and this action is brought to recover damages therefor. The evidence discloses tbe facts that tbe defendant was engaged in paving its sidewalks on one of tbe main streets of tbe city of Durham, and was using brick for that purpose. For that purpose it bad piled brick on tbe side of tbe street nest to' tbe sidewalk that was being paved. One of these piles', and tbe one where tbe plaintiff was injured, was about four feet high and about five…
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