Keck v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Actioet by J. G. Keek against tbe American Telephone and Telegraph Company, and the Atlantic and Yadkin Railway Company, heard by Judge Walter Ii. Neal and a jury, at February Term, 1902, of the Superior Court of Guilford County. From a judgment for the plaintiff against the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, it appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtMontgomery, J.
A judgment upon the verdict was entered in favor of the defendant the Atlantic and Yadkin Railway Company, and the jury having found the issues in favor of the plaintiff against the other defendant, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, judgment was rendered against that company for the amount of the recovery.
The circumstances connected with the incident or transaction connected with which the negligence of the defendant, the telephone company, was imputed, were substantially these: The defendant railroad company brought on their cars a lot of telephone poles from Wilmington to a…
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