Harrison v. Southern Railway Co.

The question for decision is the correctness of the nonsuit.

The record discloses that the plaintiff is a man of business experience, 32 years of age and literate. He says that prior to entering the employ of the defendant, he was “in the fish and oyster business for 10 or 12 years in a big way. ... I have had experience in making out sales tickets and collecting money in business.” He is now in the wholesale oyster business at Salisbury.

Plaintiff began work with the defendant as an engine-carpenter helper in its repair shops at Spencer around the first of the year 1942. On 2 March, 1943, he…