Edwards v. Railroad
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN by E. S. Edwards, Administrator of Harry Pray-low, against the Carolina & Northwestern Railway Company, heard by Judge C. M. Cooke and a jury, at the September Term, 1905, of the Superior Court of Lincoln. From a judgment for the plaintiff,'the defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtClark, C. J.
At Lincolnton station the defendant’s tracks are on the north side of the depot and those of the Seaboard Air Line Railway are parallel and on the south side. On the day in question a long freight train had come in on the defendant’s track and had been engaged in unloading and shifting, some half hour, when the passenger train came in on the other road. Thereupon the defendant’s freight train was “cut open” where the street leading to the town crossed its track. This street was then used, and had been for many years, as the main and only thoroughfare to and from the trams and depot. After…
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