Turrentine v. . Richmond Davidson Railroad
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil action, tried before MacRae, Judge, and a jury, at Spring Term, 1884, of Mecklenburg Superior Court. • The complaint charges that the plaintiff, as route agent in the service of the post office department, and in charge of the mails on the defendant’s train, in passing between Charlotte and Dan-ville, in the latter part of November and early in December, 1877, in consequence of the insufficient warming of the room in the car assigned him, became violently ill and lost…
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Civil action, tried before MacRae, Judge, and a jury, at Spring Term, 1884, of Mecklenburg Superior Court. • The complaint charges that the plaintiff, as route agent in the service of the post office department, and in charge of the mails on the defendant’s train, in passing between Charlotte and Dan-ville, in the latter part of November and early in December, 1877, in consequence of the insufficient warming of the room in the car assigned him, became violently ill and lost his power of speech, and in this action he claims reparation in damages for the consequences of the negligence and…
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, C. J-.
(after stating the facts as above). We have not adverted to the numerous exceptions scattered along the way in the progress of the trial to the admission of evidence the jury were allowed to hear, nor have we given more than a summary statement of the matter in controversy, since the response of the jury to the. inquiries they were directed to make, furnish sufficient reason without an examination of the other errors assigned, for reversing the judgment and submitting to another jury, issues put in a form that will elicit the information needed in determining the case upon its…
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