Powell v. Wilmington & Weldon Railroad
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil action, tried before Clarice, J., at Wayne Superior-Court at January (Special) Term, 1872. The plaintiff claimed damages for injuries received by his intestate, Uriah Denning, on the defendant’s road. Said intestate, on the 6th of December, 1870, took passage on a. freight train of the defendant at Goldsboro, going to Mount-Olive, a station on said road south of Goldsboro, on his own private business.
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Civil action, tried before Clarice, J., at Wayne Superior-Court at January (Special) Term, 1872. The plaintiff claimed damages for injuries received by his intestate, Uriah Denning, on the defendant’s road. Said intestate, on the 6th of December, 1870, took passage on a. freight train of the defendant at Goldsboro, going to Mount-Olive, a station on said road south of Goldsboro, on his own private business. The train had eight or ten freight cars and1 a conductor’s car, in which passengers were usually carried and fare collected, and while going at about five or six miles1 per hoiir the…
1Opinion of the CourtRodman, J.
We do not feel at liberty to express any -opinion upon most of the interesting and important questions of law which the counsel were prepared to discuss and upon which they invited us to enter.
We have several times said that on mere matters of practice which were presented in a case we would express an opinion, even when it was not absolutely necessary to a -decision of it. We have supposed ourselves at liberty to do this, not only because it is convenient to the profession and the public that such questions should be settled at the earliest period, but also because by the Code this Court has…
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