Bissell v. Greenleaf-Johnson Lumber Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal from Coolce, J., September Term, 1909, of Martin. Civil action to recover damages for injury caused by alleged negligence of defendant. Tbe plaintiff, a witness in bis own bebalf,' testified, in part, as follows: “I was locomotive engineer in tbe service of tbe defendant in 1904, and bad been so engaged witb tbat company for fourteen years.
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Appeal from Coolce, J., September Term, 1909, of Martin. Civil action to recover damages for injury caused by alleged negligence of defendant. Tbe plaintiff, a witness in bis own bebalf,' testified, in part, as follows: “I was locomotive engineer in tbe service of tbe defendant in 1904, and bad been so engaged witb tbat company for fourteen years. During tbe months of July and August, 1904, I was engaged every day except Sunday as engineer on one of tbe log trains in bauling logs. Tbe first part of July tbe cab of tbe engine was burned. Before tben there bad always been one on all tbe engines…
1Opinion of the Court
Hoke, J.,
after stating the facts: Under a charge free from error the jury have accepted the plaintiff’s version of the matter, and, this being true, a clear cause of action has been established in plaintiff’s favor.
Under repeated adjudications of this Court, we have held that an employer is required to provide for his employees a reasonably safe place to Work, and to supply them with appliances and implements safe and suitable for the purpose; and, even in cases where the doctrine of assumption of risk is applicable, it is not merely working in the presence of an obvious defect that will…
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