Holland v. Railroad
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN by M. H. Holland, administrator of H. L. Holland, against Seaboard Air Line Eailway Company, beard by Judge Fred Moore and a jury, at the September Term, 1906, of the Superior Court of Moose. Erom a judgment of nonsuit, the plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtWalkeR, J.
The plaintiff brought this action to recover damages for the alleged negligent killing of his intestate. The evidence introduced by him tended to show that1, in October, 1902, a freight train known as Extra 578, which was proceeding southward from Hamlet, took the siding at Buckingham, and a short time thereafter a passenger train, which was also proceeding southward at a fast rate of speed, ran upon the siding, collided with the caboose, or shanty car, at the end of the freight train, and killed the intestate, H. L. Holland.
Tbe defendant’s evidence tended to show that the intestate was…
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