Hansley v. Jamesville & Washington Railroad
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Action for damages, tried before Graves, J., and a jury, at_Term, 1893, of Beaufort Superior Court. From judgment'for plaintiff, defendant appealed. The facts appear in the opinion.
1DissentClark, J.
As this controversy grows out of an admitted failure on the part of the railway company to perform its agreement with a passenger to carry him to and from a particular place within a given time, and involves especially the question whether the testimony warranted the court in instructing the jury that they were at liberty to add exemplary damages to the estimated loss actually sustained by reason of the delay, it is not improper to state in the outset several leading principles of the law governing the relative rights and duties of carriers and passengers, and the rules generally applicable…
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