T. W. Mewborn & Co. v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by plaintiffs from Peebles, J., at March. Term, 1915, of LENOIR. • Civil action. The action was to recover damages to live stock, alleged to have been negligently injured in shipment over defendant roads, in March, 1912. Defendants denied liability. The evidence having been submitted, on motion, there was judgment of nonsuit as to •each and all of defendants, and plaintiffs excepted and appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtHoKE, J.
There were facts in evidence tending to show that, on or about 8 March, 1912, plaintiffs, under a live-stock contract, shipped a lot of horses and mules from Flemingsburg, Ky., to Kinston, N. C., passing over the Cincinnati and Flemingsburg Railroad, the initial carrier, to Johnston, Ky.; thence over the Louisville and Nashville Railroad to Knoxville, Tenn.; thence over the Southern Railway to Golds-boro, N. C.; thence over the Norfolk Southern to Kinston, N. C., where, on 12 March, they were delivered to plaintiffs in very bad condition; two of them so injured that one of them died that…
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