Wood v. North Carolina Public-Service Corp.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by defendant from Long, J., at tbe May Term, 1917, of GUIL-FORD. This is an action to recover damages for personal injury caused, as tlie plaintiff alleges, by tlie negligence of the defendant street railway company.
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Appeal by defendant from Long, J., at tbe May Term, 1917, of GUIL-FORD. This is an action to recover damages for personal injury caused, as tlie plaintiff alleges, by tlie negligence of the defendant street railway company. On 5 July, 1916, the plaintiff became’ a passenger on one of the defendant’s street cars for the purpose, of going to her home west of the city of Greensboro, and when the car reached a point nearly opposite Fields’ Store, about one-half mile west of the corporate limits of Greensboro, it stopped at a regular stopping place and at the destination of the plaintiff for the…
1Opinion of the Court
CLARK, C. J., concurring; WALKER, J., dissenting; BROWN, J., concurring in the dissenting opinion of WALKER, J. This is an action to recover damages for personal injury caused, as the plaintiff alleges, by the negligence of the defendant street railway company.
On 5 July, 1916, the plaintiff became a passenger on one of the defendant's street cars for the purpose of going to her home west of the city of Greensboro, and when the car reached a point nearly opposite Fields' Store, about one-half mile west of the corporate limits of Greensboro, it stopped at a regular stopping place and at the…
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