Taylor v. Tallahassee Power Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil action-, tried before Webb, J., and a jury, at July Term, 1917, of Cleveland. The action was brought to recover damages for injuries alleged to have been received by the negligence of the defendant. The plaintiff was employed as a carpenter by the defendant. The evidence was somewhat conflicting, and it will better disclose the questions at issue to state what it tended to prove as contended by the respective parties.
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Civil action-, tried before Webb, J., and a jury, at July Term, 1917, of Cleveland. The action was brought to recover damages for injuries alleged to have been received by the negligence of the defendant. The plaintiff was employed as a carpenter by the defendant. The evidence was somewhat conflicting, and it will better disclose the questions at issue to state what it tended to prove as contended by the respective parties. This is plaintiff’s version of it, or that which he contended should be accepted by the jury: “The plaintiff, under the direction of defendant’s foreman, went upon the…
1Opinion of the Court
Walker, J.,
after stating the case: We have stated the contentions of the two parties as to the nature of the evidence and what it tends to prove almost in their own language. The jury have passed upon the different views, and have adopted that of the plaintiff in all its essential features and under a carefully considered charge of the court which covered the case completely in every aspect of it. The exceptions are few and, we think, untenable.
The question asked the witness, Mr. Warren, as to whether he had been ordered to fix the elevator during the afternoon of the day on which the…
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