Troxler v. Southern Railway Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil ACTION tried before Robinson, J., and a jury at January, 1898, Special Term of Guilford Superior Court. The facts appear in the opinion. Upon the close of the evidence the defendant moved to dismiss the action and upon an intimation from his Honor that the plaintiff could not recover, the plaintiff submitted to a non-suit and appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
Montgomery, J.;
The plaintiff was a brakeman in the employment of the defendant company. At Stoke-land a car, the eighth or ninth from the engine, was taken from the train and set off on the side track, and, in an effort to couple the two cars uncoupled in the setting off of the one on the side track, the plaintiff was injured. His account, as á witness in the case, of the injury, was as follows: “We came back to couple the train on the main line. I entered the link with a stick on the S. C. I. L. car that was on the main line. As I entered the link, on account of the skeleton draw-head, the…
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