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  "id": 8651380,
  "name": "SUSAN M. FULP, Administratrix of J. Wesley Fulp, v. ROANOKE & SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY",
  "name_abbreviation": "Fulp v. Roanoke & Southern Railway Co.",
  "decision_date": "1894-02",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "697",
  "last_page": "698",
  "citations": [
    {
      "type": "official",
      "cite": "114 N.C. 697"
    }
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "N.C.",
    "id": 9292,
    "name": "Supreme Court of North Carolina"
  },
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    "id": 5,
    "name_long": "North Carolina",
    "name": "N.C."
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  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "SUSAN M. FULP, Administratrix of J. Wesley Fulp, v. ROANOKE & SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Sheph\u00c9RI), C. J.:\nThe demurrer was properly sustained, as the only negligence is that the defendant failed to give any notice of the approach of its train \u201cby whistle, bell or otherwise\u201d to the intestate, who was walking on its track. We know of no law which imposes a liability upon a railroad company upon such meagre allegations.\nAffirmed.",
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        "author": "Sheph\u00c9RI), C. J.:"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Mr. J. 8. Grogan, for plaintiff (appellant).",
      "No counsel contra."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "SUSAN M. FULP, Administratrix of J. Wesley Fulp, v. ROANOKE & SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY.\nAction for Damages for Injury Resulting in Death \u2014 Negligence \u2014 r Failure to Give Signal of Approach of Train\u2014 Person Walking on Ti'acJc.\nWhere, in an action against a railroad company for negligently causing the death of. plaintiff\u2019s intestate, the complaint alleges no other negligence than the failure of the engineer to give any notice, by whistle, bell or otherwise, of the approach of the train to intestate, who was walking on the track and wras run over and killed by the locomotive, no sufficient cause of action is stated.\nCivil actioN, heard before Winston, J., at December Term, 1893, of Forsyth Superior Court.\nThe plaintiff sought to recover damages for the negligent killing of her intestate by the defendant. The only allegation of negligence stated in the complaint was as follows :\n\u201cThat on the day of -, 18the deceased, the plantiff\u2019s intestate, was going to his home, and walking upon the defendant\u2019s track; he was, by the negligence of the defendant and its servants, in that it failed to give any notice of its approach by whistle or bell or otherwise, run over by defendant\u2019s locomotive and killed without any fault of plaintiff\u2019s intestate.\u201d\nWhen the case was called for hearing the defendant moved to dismiss the complaint on the ground that the same did not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action, as an oral demurrer. The demurrer was' sustained, and plaintiff appealed.\nMr. J. 8. Grogan, for plaintiff (appellant).\nNo counsel contra."
  },
  "file_name": "0697-01",
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