Howard v. . Wright
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil actioN to recover damages for death of plaintiff’s intestate, caused by alleged negligence of defendant’s employees, tried before Daniels, J., and a jury, at November Term, 1916, of Duuham. There was evidence on part of plaintiff tending to show that in the fall of 1915 defendant was having a dwelling-house built in said county by bis own employees and under tbe supervision and direction of W. C. Gibson.
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Civil actioN to recover damages for death of plaintiff’s intestate, caused by alleged negligence of defendant’s employees, tried before Daniels, J., and a jury, at November Term, 1916, of Duuham. There was evidence on part of plaintiff tending to show that in the fall of 1915 defendant was having a dwelling-house built in said county by bis own employees and under tbe supervision and direction of W. C. Gibson. That on 10 September, 1915, intestate, one of tbe employees, while engaged in said employment, fell from a scaffold or platform prepared for carrying on tbe work and received severe…
1Opinion of the CourtHoke, J.
There was ample evidence of negligence in respect to the platform, both as to the material of which it was made, and the manner in which it was built, two of the witnesses testifying that when it was being put up one of the employees said to the foreman: “You are fixing a trap there to throw men down and break their necks,’ and the foreman replied: “Let the men look where they walk, and if they fall the ground will catch them.” Defendant, however, contends that there was error in the proceedings below as to the assumption of risk on the part of the intestate, in that his Honor did not lay…
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