Legal Opinion

Pearce v. Fisher.

Supreme Court of North Carolina

Decided November 10, 1903PublishedCited by 6 opinions

ActioN by O. F. Pearce against B. J. Fisher and another,, heard by Judge Thomas A. McNeill and a jury at September Term, 1902, of the Superior Court of Guilpobd County. From a judgment for the plaintiff the defendants appealed.

1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.

This action was brought by the plaintiff to recover damages for injury to his stock of goods alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendants.

In his complaint the plaintiff alleges that he leased from the defendant Fisher a store-room in Greensboro and conducted therein a mercantile business. That some time after the lease was made to him the defendant Fisher leased the rooms above the said store-room in the same building, to his co-defendant Clegg, for use as a hotel. That the defendants negligently permitted the plumbing in the rooms so leased to Clegg to become defective and…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Tucker v. . SatterthwaiteSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1897
  2. Strauss v. City of Wilmington.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1901

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Womble v. . Grocery Co.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1904
  2. Powell v. . BenthallSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1904
  3. Powell v. BenthallSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1904
  4. T. L. Edge v. North State Feldspar Corp.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1937
  5. Griffin v. Atlantic Coast Line RailroadSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1903

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