Fulp v. Roanoke & Southern Railroad
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Ciytl actioN for damage for the alleged negligent b illing of a plaintiff’s intestate by defendant, tried beforellohe, J., and a jury, at December Term, 1896, of FoRsyth Superior Court. There was a verdict for the defendant, and from the judgment thereon plaintiff appealed,
1Opinion of the Court
FuecheS; J.:
This is an action for damages, in which the plaintiff, administratrix, alleges that defendant negligently ran over and killed her intestate, Wesley Fulp. The killing was admitted to have been done by a freight train on defendant’s road, in the night time, near a public crossing about one mile north of Denney. The train that killed the intestate was going south, and struck the intestate “30 or 40” yards north of the crossing. There was a curve in the road just before reaching the crossing. Lacy, the engineer, was introduced by the defendant and testified: “I was engineer. I had…
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