Dickerson v. . R. R.

Certain actions pending in the Superior Court of Craven County against Norfolk Southern Railroad Company and James K. Daugherty, instituted by N. F. Dickerson and others, owners of a pack house and a large quantity of tobacco stored therein, destroyed by fire on 3 November, 1920, and by certain insurance companies, which had paid to the owners of said property sums of money due under policies of insurance issued by them, were consolidated for trial. It was alleged in the complaints in said actions that the fire which destroyed said pack house an tobacco was set out by the negligence of…