Barbee v. . Davis

The material facts are as follows:

This was a civil action to recover damages for an alleged personal injury received by the plaintiff while working as a yard brakeman on the Pomona yards, near the city of Greensboro, N.C. the plaintiff alleging that the North Carolina Railroad Company was the owner of a railroad track from Charlotte, through Pomona and Greensboro, to Goldsboro, all in North Carolina: that the said railroad company, before the injury complained of and the bringing of this action, had leased its roadbed, yards, and privileges to the Southern Railway Company; that the Southern…