Worley v. Laurel River Logging Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal from Lane, J., at September Term, 1911, of MadisoN. This is an action to recover damages for personal injuries. The plaintiff, at the time of Ms injury, was employed as an engineer by tbe defendant, a corporation, engaged in the manufacture of lumber, and operating in connection therewith a logging road.
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Appeal from Lane, J., at September Term, 1911, of MadisoN. This is an action to recover damages for personal injuries. The plaintiff, at the time of Ms injury, was employed as an engineer by tbe defendant, a corporation, engaged in the manufacture of lumber, and operating in connection therewith a logging road. The plaintiff alleges that he was operating the train of the defendant on 14' September, 1910, and was injured by reason of a derailment; that the defendant was negligent, in that it allowed and permitted the track and roadbed of its road to be and remain in a poor and dangerous…
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The plaintiff, at the time of his injury, was employed as an engineer by the defendant, a corporation, engaged in the manufacture of lumber, and operating in connection therewith a logging road.
The plaintiff alleges that he was operating the train of the defendant on 14 September, 1910, and was injured by reason of a derailment; that the defendant was negligent, in that it allowed and permitted the track and roadbed of its road to be and remain in a poor and dangerous condition, without ballast on its tracks and with many heavy grades and sharp and dangerous curves, and it allowed and…
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