Seawell v. . R. R.

CONNOR and WALKER, JJ., concurring. This is a petition to rehear this case, which was decided132 N.C. 856. The chief exception relied on is the refusal of the judge to nonsuit the plaintiff, on the ground that there was no evidence. The plaintiff, who was a candidate for Lieutenant-Governor of this State, had gone in his canvass of the State to speak at a town (516) where the party whose candidate he was was unpopular. He went back to the railroad station to take the train, and while at the station, with a mileage ticket in his pocket, awaiting the arrival of the train, a mob came up and…