Watts v. Pama Manufacturing Company

Defendant first assigns as error the denial of its motion for nonsuit. The gist of its argument on this assignment is that there is no evidence that defendant “operated in such a way to occasion more noise and vibration than necessarily results from operation of other plants of like nature and character.” It calls attention to the undisputed testimony of the male plaintiff and his father, on cross-examination, that they had worked at a knitting mill, the Beaunit Mill in Lowell, Gaston County, and that the machines used and the manner of operating were similar to those of defendant.

Defendant…