Covington v. . Furniture Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
AotioN by D. A. Covington against Smith Furniture Company, heard by Judge B. B. Peebles and a jury, at the February Term, 1905, of the Superior Court’ of Guilfoed County. Action to recover damages for injuries sustained by plaintiff while working in defendant’s employment. Plaintiff alleged that he was injured in operating a. jointer. That he began work in July and continued till.
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AotioN by D. A. Covington against Smith Furniture Company, heard by Judge B. B. Peebles and a jury, at the February Term, 1905, of the Superior Court’ of Guilfoed County. Action to recover damages for injuries sustained by plaintiff while working in defendant’s employment. Plaintiff alleged that he was injured in operating a. jointer. That he began work in July and continued till. September, 1903; that he had been engaged at.work on similar machines in other factories some five or six years; that he was an experienced man in such employment; that at the time he was injured he was running two…
1Opinion of the Court
Connor, J.,
after stating the facts: ’ The correctness of the judgment of nonsuit depends upon the application of some well settled principles of law. .Taking the plaintiff’s evidence and all inferences to be draAvn therefrom most favorable to his view, the question arises whether there was any breach of legal duty on the part of the defendant in respect to the engine and its relation to the machine which he operated. He says that it did not have sufficient capacity to move steadily and without variation all of the machines in the shop; that when the heavy planer was attached, it slackened the…
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