Harvey v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal from W.'B. Allen, J., at tbe October Term, 1909, of WayNE. The facts in evidence are set out in the case on appeal as follows: “There was evidence tending to show that plaintiff was a commercial traveler, and desired to take passage from Wilson to Goldsboro, North Carolina, over the defendant’s road, and he had in his possession a mileage book, good over the defendant’s road, with sufficient mileage therein unused to carry him from Wilson to Goldsboro.
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Appeal from W.'B. Allen, J., at tbe October Term, 1909, of WayNE. The facts in evidence are set out in the case on appeal as follows: “There was evidence tending to show that plaintiff was a commercial traveler, and desired to take passage from Wilson to Goldsboro, North Carolina, over the defendant’s road, and he had in his possession a mileage book, good over the defendant’s road, with sufficient mileage therein unused to carry him from Wilson to Goldsboro. There was evidence which tended to prove that plaintiff went into defendant’s ticket office in Wilson; that there was a great crowd…
1Opinion of the Court
CLARK, C. J., concurring; BROWN, J., concurring in part, and dissenting as to not setting aside the verdict in this case as excessive; WALKER, J., concurring in the opinion of BROWN, J. The facts in evidence are set out in the case on appeal as follows: "There was evidence tending to show that plaintiff was a commercial traveler, and desired to take passage from Wilson to Goldsboro, North Carolina, over the defendant's road, and he had in his possession a mileage book, good over the defendant's road, with sufficient mileage therein unused to carry him from Wilson to Goldsboro. There was…
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