Harris v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Action by D. H. Harris, administrator of Obra Denton, against the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company heard by Judge Francis D. Winston, at October Term, 1902, .of the Superior Court of Edgecombe County. From a judgment for the plaintiff, the defendant appealed.
1DissentMontgomery, J.
This is an action for damages for the killing (161) of the plaintiff's intestate through the alleged negligence of the defendant. The material facts are substantially set forth in the following testimony of the witness Manning.
J. W. Manning, for plaintiff, testified: "I am 79 years of age; on the morning of 26, January, 1900, left home with Mrs. Denton and her little boy, 6 years old; I went with them to the Tar River railroad bridge; we went across the field and entered upon the railroad track about 150 to 200 yards of the bridge, walked down the track to the bridge; at the bridge we stopped…
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