Price Ex Rel. Bland v. Board of Trustees
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil action- to recover damages for alleged negligent injury, beard on demurrer to complaint before Lyon, J., at May Term, 1916, of WayNE. There was judgment sustaining demurrer, and plaintiffs, having duly excepted, appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtHoke, J.
The complaint, in effect, alleges that in September, 1915, defendant, incorporated by act of General Assembly, Public-Local Laws 1913, ch. 321, and charged with duty of constructing and maintaining the public roads of Goldsboro Township, Wayne County, were, through their employees and agents, in performance of their corporate duties, engaged in blasting out certain portions of a public road in said township and using for the purpose dynamite cartridges, etc.; that said employees, while so engaged, by reason of a rainstorm suddenly arising, were forced to seek shelter in a barn of one Howard,…
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