Hinson v. Atlanta & Charlotte Air Line Railway Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil actioN tried at September. Term, 1916, of MeokleNbueg, before Justice, J. From a judgment of nonsuit, plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtBeowN, J.
The only evidence taken was that offered by plaintiff. Taking that to be true, the court did not err in sustaining the motion to nonsuit.
Plaintiff was a hostler in the yards of Southern Railway Company, lessee of defendant, in Charlotte. On the evening .of 20 December, 1914, he started home across the yards and switching tracks of defendant. On his way he encountered a train of coal cars connected together that had been run in on one of the side-tracks that day. Plain*647tiff looked up and down tbe train of cars and decided to cross tbe tr-ack underneath the cars, and started across underneath…
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