Carter v. Cape Fear Lumber Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
AotioN by Charles Carter against tbe Cape Eear Lumber Company, heard by Judge W. A. Holce and a jury, at April Term, 1901, of the Superior Court of New Hanover County. Erom a judgment for the plaintiff, the defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtMontgomery, J.
The plaintiff was injured while employed by the defendant, in the receiving of lumber from a slide and placing the lumber upon a truck for transfer to a car and thence to a dry-kiln. The slide was at an angle of about 38 degrees and about six feet in width. There was a platform at the base of the slide about fifteen inches wide, according to the testimony of the plaintiff. At each outer edge of the platform there was a “bumper” (a square piece of timber) protruding above the'platform for the purpose of stopping and holding in position the pieces of plank, raised singly to the top of the slide…
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