Howe v. Hall.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN by S. B. Howe against J. G. Hall and David Hemphill, receivers of the Chester and Lenoir N. G. R. R. Oo., and G. W. E. Harper, receiver of the Chester and Lenoir N. G. R. R. Co., and the Carolina and Northwestern Railway Company, heard by Judge W. S. O’B. Robinson, at February Term, 1901, of GastoN County Superior Court. From a judgment for the plaintiff, the defendants appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtMontgomery, J.
This case was tried at the August Special Term, 1900, of the Superior Court of Gaston County, before Starbuck, J., and a jury. After the plaintiff had introduced his evidence, each of the defendants made a motion for judgment dismissing the complaint as of nonsuit upon the ground that the evidence had disclosed the fact that neither of the defendants was the corporation, or the representative of the corporation, which had inflicted the injury complained of by the plaintiff, and that the injury had in fact been inflicted by a corporation which had not been sued. The motion was refused, but was…
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- Best v. British & American Co.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1901
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- Britt v. AllenCourt of Appeals of North Carolina · 1978