Means v. Carolina Central Railway Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Oiyil action tried before Oreene, J., and a jury at January Term, 1898, of Mecklenburg Superior Court. There was a verdict for the plaintiff who was awarded $750 damages for the negligent killing of her intestate and husband who was a brakeman on defendant’s road. Defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
Montgomery, J: The plaintiff’s intestate was killed while in the employment of the defendant company upon one of its trains. He was a brakeman and the train was a freight train consisting of an engine, nine box cars, two flat cars, a conductor’s cab and a passenger coach. The engineer was acting also as conductor, and the plaintiff alleges that her intestate was killed through the negligence of the defendant while he was obeying the instructions of the engineer, as conductor, to take up and bring to him the tickets of passengers. There are several important questions, raised by the defendant…
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- Means v. Carolina Central RailroadSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1900