Wright v. Southern Railway Co.

Citations

• 30 S.E. 348
• 122 N.C. 959
• 1898 N.C. LEXIS 376

Syllabus

<p>Action for Damages — Master and Servant — Injury to Employee — Negligence—Condition of Railroad Track —Question for Jury — Trial.</p> <p>Where, in the trial of an action for damages for injury resulting in the death of plaintiff’s intestate and alleged to have been caused by defendant’s negligence, it appeared that a tender was detached at a point where the road bed was in a good condition but was dragged along until it struck some rotten cross-ties, breaking off the ends and spreading the track which caused the tender to he detached, and the intestate to he killed; Held, that the question of negligence was one for the jury.</p>