Fearington v. . Tobacco Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN by Arthur Eearington, by bis next friend, against tbe Blackwell Durham Tobacco Company, beard by Judge T. J. Shaw and a jury, at tbe October Term, 1905, of tbe Superior Court of Dubham.
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ActioN by Arthur Eearington, by bis next friend, against tbe Blackwell Durham Tobacco Company, beard by Judge T. J. Shaw and a jury, at tbe October Term, 1905, of tbe Superior Court of Dubham. Tbe plaintiff on bis examination in chief testified as follows : “I was injured sometime in June, 1903; bad been at work- in the defendant’s factory three days before tbe injury, working in the skipping room helping to load eases of tobacco in a bos car wkick stayed on tke sidetrack in a few feet of' tke skipping room. In tke evening, Mr. Andrews, superintendent of tke defendant, came to me and told me…
1Per curiam
In Hicks v. Mfg. Company, 138 N. C., 325, it is said to be accepted law that an employer of labor to assist in the operation of railways, mills and other plants, when the machinery is more or less complicated, and more especially when driven by mechanical power, is required to provide for his employees in the exercise of proper care a reasonably safe place to work and to supply them with machinery, implements and appliances reasonably safe and suitable for the work in which they are engaged, and such as are approved and in general use in plants and places of like kind and character. And an…
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