Houston v. Durham Traction Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal from W. J. Adams, J"., at the March Term, 1910, of DüKI-IAM. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion of Mr. Chief Justice Ciarle.
1Opinion of the CourtClaRK, C. J.
This is a petition to rehear this case, which was affirmed by an evenly divided Court, at this term.
Plaintiff’s intestate was a young man nineteen years of age working as a hand for contractors in the basement of a store which was being repaired by them for the owner in consequence of damages from fire. On the application of the contractors, the defendant traction company supplied them with three incan descent lights swinging on cords forty or fifty feet in length so as to enable the workmen to move the lights from place to place as occasion required, in order to see how to perform their…
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