Hatch v. Alamance Railway Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by defendant from Darnels, J., at September Term, 1921, of ALAMANCE. Plaintiff brought suit against the Piedmont Power & Light Company and the Alamance Railway Company to recover damages for the alleged negligent death of her intestate. The Alamance Railway Company operates an interurban street car line connecting Burlington, Graham, and Haw River, and the Piedmont Company owns a plant in which electricity is generated for running the cars.
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Appeal by defendant from Darnels, J., at September Term, 1921, of ALAMANCE. Plaintiff brought suit against the Piedmont Power & Light Company and the Alamance Railway Company to recover damages for the alleged negligent death of her intestate. The Alamance Railway Company operates an interurban street car line connecting Burlington, Graham, and Haw River, and the Piedmont Company owns a plant in which electricity is generated for running the cars. The intestate, in January, 1918, was in the employ of the Alamance Railway Company, and on 22 January was operating a freight car on the company’s…
1DissentClark, C. J.
“The plaintiff’s intestate-was killed 22 January, 1918. The original summons was issued 13 January, 1919, and on that day the 'sheriff went to the office of the two defendants and informed J. H. Hardin, their local agent, that he had for service a summons against the defendants in favor of the plaintiff, advising him of its contents, and tendered him a copy of the summons for each defendant, which he refused to accept, and told the sheriff that he was not an officer of either of the companies, nor a proper person upon whom to make service, and that J. H. Bridgers, a nonresident, was the…
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