Dawson v. Carolina Power & Light Company

This is a civil action to recover damages for personal injuries resulting from a fall in defendant’s office at 318 Sunset Avenue, Asheboro, North Carolina, allegedly caused by defendant’s actionable negligence in, during a rainy day, permitting dampness or water to be on its office floor, and in not providing a floor mat for customers to wipe their feet on. Defendant in ‘its answer denies that it was negligent, and conditionally pleads contributory negligence of plaintiff.

Plaintiff assigns as error the judgment of compulsory nonsuit entered at the close of her evidence by the court on…