Shaw v. North Carolina Public-Service Corp.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by defendant from Lyon, J., at January Term, 1915, of Guil-eokd. Tbe defendant is a corporation engaged in tbe business of furnishing electricity to tbe inhabitants of tbe city of Greensboro for lighting purposes, and, as such, it contracted with tbe Cook-Lewis Foundry Company to supply it with electricity for said purpose, tbe current not to exceed 119 volts.
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Appeal by defendant from Lyon, J., at January Term, 1915, of Guil-eokd. Tbe defendant is a corporation engaged in tbe business of furnishing electricity to tbe inhabitants of tbe city of Greensboro for lighting purposes, and, as such, it contracted with tbe Cook-Lewis Foundry Company to supply it with electricity for said purpose, tbe current not to exceed 119 volts. Plaintiff was employed by tbe Cook-Lewis Foundry Company as an apprentice in tbe molding department of its business, and was, besides, learning tbe trade of molding. On 15 July, 1914, while in tbe performance of bis duty of…
1Opinion of the Court
WalkeR, J.,
after stating the case: The case seems to have been reduced practically to a question of fact, whether the plaintiff’s injuries were due to the defective transformer or to the defective incandescent' lamp attached to the cord, which he carried in his hands and used for throwing light on the molds, so that he could see how to clean them. The feed wire of the defendant, from which it supplied the current of 119 volts to the foundry, carried as much as 2,300 volts, which is not only a dangerous, but a very deadly current. It appears by strong inference from the evidence that the…
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