Pharr v. Atlanta & Charlotte Air Line Railway Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Action by II. N. Pbarr, administrator, against the Atlanta & Charlotte Air Line Railway Company, beard by Judge Thomas J. Shaw and a jury, at January Term, 1903, of the Superior Court of Mecklenburg County. From a judgment for the plaintiff, the defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
The plaintiff’s intestate was a brakeman in the employment of the defendant’s lessee, the Southern Rail*419way Company, at the time be is alleged to have been killed by the negligence of the latter.' A freight train on its way from Spencer to Charlotte bad reached a point on the line of the lessee’s railway, called “The Junction,” and it was the duty of the intestate at that place to uncouple the train between ears 20 and 21 for the purpose of having the cars of the rear section transferred to another track. In order to do so, it was necessary for the engineer to move the train back and slack on…
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