Edwards v. Southern Railway Co.

This action was heard in this Court at Fall Term, 1937, ou the appeal of the defendant Southern Railway Company from an order of the Superior Court of Swain County, denying its petition for the removal of the action from the Superior Court of Swain County to the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina for trial. The order was affirmed. See Edwards v. R. R., 212 N. C., 61.

At the trial of the action in the Superior Court of Swain County, all the evidence showed that at the time plaintiff’s intestate fell from the defendant’s train, he was riding on said train as…