Conn v. Seaboard Air Line Railway Co.

The record shows the following: During the argument of one of the counsel for plaintiff to the jury, he made the following statement:

“The law in North Carolina says that all Mr. Conn had to do when he approached the track was to stop, if the circumstances were such that an ordinarily prudent man would stop, look and listen, and then go ahead as he did in this case.” “The North Carolina Supreme Court in the case of Kimbrough v. R. R., 180 N. C., 274, and decided in the year 1920, turned the defendant’s theory down flat. I want to read here what Judge Ciarle said about the law. Judge Ciarle was…