Bryan v. Railroad Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN by W. B. Bryan against the Southern Railroad Company, heard by Judge B. F. Long and a jury, at May Term, 1903, of the Superior Court of Catawba County.
1Opinion of the CourtMoNtgomeby, J.
The plaintiff, an employee of the defendant company at the time when he was hurt, was engaged with a squad of hands under a boss in loading a box car with heavy timber. In his complaint, as it was first drawn, the negligence alleged was that the defendant was engaged in the work with an insufficient force of hands. The complaint was amended, after the answer was put in, as follows: “That the defendant company was negligent in that said Whitley, foreman and boss of defendant’s force of laborers as aforesaid, negligently ordered said Sigman to bold said stringer or jiieee of timber on said car…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Wilkie v. RailroadSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1901
3Cited by3 opinions
- Worley v. Laurel River Logging Co.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1911
- Jones v. Life Insurance Co.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1910
- Kistler v. Southern Railway Co.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1916