Harrison v. Southern Railway Co.

Stacy, C. J.,

after stating the case: Conceding the sufficiency of the evidence to permit the inference that plaintiff’s intestate was killed by defendant’s passing freight train (Cox v. R. R., 123 N. C., 604, 31 S. E., 348), still the record is barren of any evidence of actionable negligence on the part of the defendant. Negligence is not presumed from the mere fact of an injury. Austin v. R. R., 197 N. C., 319, 148 S. E., 446; Miller v. Holland, 196 N. C., 739, 147 S. E., 8; Lamb v. Boyles, 192 N. C., 542, 135 S. E., 464; Isley v. Bridge Co., 141 N. C., 220, 53 S. E., 841.

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