Loggins v. Southern Public Utilities Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by plaintiff from Webb, J., at February Term, 1921, of Foesytti. Civil action to recover damages for an alleged negligent injury and killing of plaintiff’s intestate, a boy between eight and nine years of age.
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Appeal by plaintiff from Webb, J., at February Term, 1921, of Foesytti. Civil action to recover damages for an alleged negligent injury and killing of plaintiff’s intestate, a boy between eight and nine years of age. There was evidence for the plaintiff tending to show that on 10 July, 1919, L. A. Loggins, a carpenter, and his infant son took passage on a street car of the Southern Public Utilities Company, near 23d Street in the city of Winston-Salem, and paid their fares to East Winston, where plaintiff lived. In order to make this continuous trip over the defendant’s lines it was necessary…
1Opinion of the CourtStacy, J.
Considering the evidence most strongly in favor of the plaintiff, which we are required to do on a motion to nonsuit, we think it sufficient .to carry the case to the jury.
The following may be stated as reasonable inferences from the testimony appearing in the record:
1. Plaintiff’s intestate, a boy under nine years of age, was a passenger on one of the street cars of the Southern Public Utilities Company.
*2242. In company with, his father, he left this car at the usual place,, for the purpose of transferring to another car which would carry them to East "Winston.
3. He had in his possession a…
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