Smith v. Commissioners of Lexington
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by plaintiff from Show, J., at July Term, 1918, of DavtosoN. This was an action for the death of plaintiff’s intestate by an electric shock at the Chero-Cola plant at Lexington, N. C., on 25 June, 1917. Verdict and judgment for defendant. Appeal by plaintiff.
1Opinion of the CourtClark, C. J.
The plaintiff’s intestate was assisting in putting machinery in the Chero-Cola plant at Lexington for operation, it being a new plant, and at the time he was sitting on a large metal-covered machine waiting for a change to be made in a gas tube. In getting down from the machine he took hold of an electric socket, which had been put in by the defendant and which was hanging over his lap, to push it out of the way, and received the deadly current which instantly killed him. The electric power and light fixtures had been installed by the town of Lexington some ten days before. There had been…
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