Nelson v. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil aotioN to recover damages for personal injury received while in defendant’s employment, tried at December Term, 1906, of tbe Superior Court of Eoesyth County, Ward, J., presiding. Tbe following issues were submitted to tbe jury: 1. Was tbe plaintiff injured by tbe negligence of tbe defendant, as alleged in tbe complaint? Answer: No. 2. Did tbe plaintiff by ber own negligence contribute to ber injury? Tbe plaintiff moved for a new trial. Motion denied.
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Civil aotioN to recover damages for personal injury received while in defendant’s employment, tried at December Term, 1906, of tbe Superior Court of Eoesyth County, Ward, J., presiding. Tbe following issues were submitted to tbe jury: 1. Was tbe plaintiff injured by tbe negligence of tbe defendant, as alleged in tbe complaint? Answer: No. 2. Did tbe plaintiff by ber own negligence contribute to ber injury? Tbe plaintiff moved for a new trial. Motion denied. Erom a judgment dismissing tbe action plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
There is evidence tending to prove that plaintiff, an employee in the factory of defendant, after her day’s work was over, on her way out'of the factory, was passing along a passageway through the factory building. This passageway was the one usually used by the operatives to reach the street. On the occasion of plaintiff’s injury, the evidence tends to prove that the passageway had become blocked to some extent with large hogsheads, which plaintiff was compelled to pass by in order to reach the exit from the building. As she was passing along the passage, John Morgan, another employee of…
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