Pendergrast v. Durham Traction Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by plaintiff from Peebles, J., at March Term, 1913, of DURHAM. Civil action to recover damages for physical injury caused by tbe alleged negligence on tbe part of defendant company. On motion, duly entered, there was judgment of nonsuit, and' the plaintiff excepted and appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtHoee, J.
The evidence, among- other things, tended to show that on 25 September, 1911, the plaintiff, a passenger on a street car of defendant company, in the endeavor to alight from the car while in motion, had the little finger of his left hand torn off by reason of a thin ring on that finger catching on the head of a screw at the bottom of the grab-handle on the forward part of the ear. The plaintiff testified that he had gone out on the platform for the jrurpose of alighting as the car entered the switch on Chapel Hill Street, when it was moving at the rate of 5 to 6 miles per hour, having asked…
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