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  "id": 11255612,
  "name": "Mrs. E. MURPHY, Admx., etc., v. THE CITY OF CHARLOTTE, BOARD OF WATER COMMISSIONERS OF CHARLOTTE, SOUTHERN POWER COMPANY, et al.",
  "name_abbreviation": "Murphy v. City of Charlotte",
  "decision_date": "1917-11-28",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "771",
  "last_page": "771",
  "citations": [
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      "cite": "174 N.C. 771"
    }
  ],
  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "N.C.",
    "id": 9292,
    "name": "Supreme Court of North Carolina"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 5,
    "name_long": "North Carolina",
    "name": "N.C."
  },
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  "last_updated": "2023-07-14T18:13:24.898604+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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    "parties": [
      "Mrs. E. MURPHY, Admx., etc., v. THE CITY OF CHARLOTTE, BOARD OF WATER COMMISSIONERS OF CHARLOTTE, SOUTHERN POWER COMPANY, et al."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Per Curiam.\nThe deceased was employed by the Water Commissioners in patching gutters on the pumping station. While so engaged he came in contact with the electric current of the Southern Power Company\u2019s wires that supply the motive power of the station and was killed. These wires pass over the roof and enter the main building of the station and are supported by stanchions some 4 feet and 9 inches in height and carry a very heavy current, some 40,000 volts.\n\u25a0 (1) There is no evidence of a failure to perform any duty that either defendant owed plaintiff\u2019s intestate. \u25a0 .\n(2) The defendants offered no evidence. Plaintiff\u2019s evidence makes out a clear case of contributory negligence. The intestate was instructed to patch only the gutters, warned not to get near the wires, and told to move his ladder around to the west gutter after finishing the middle gutter, and thus avoid the wires. If he had heeded instructions he would not have been injured.\nAffirmed.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Per Curiam."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "\u00edr. A. Smith, and T. AL. Adams for plaintiff.",
      "Gansler & Gansler, John M. Robinson, Osborne, Goalee & Robinson for defendants."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "Mrs. E. MURPHY, Admx., etc., v. THE CITY OF CHARLOTTE, BOARD OF WATER COMMISSIONERS OF CHARLOTTE, SOUTHERN POWER COMPANY, et al.\n(Filed 28 November, 1917.)\nMaster and Servant \u2014 Employer and Employee \u2014 Disobedience of Orders\u2014 Contributory Negligence.\nWhere an employee unnecessarily disobeys the order of bis employer, and for that sole reason bas met bis death in coming into contact with electric wires of another company, his contributory negligence will bar a recovery in an action for damages for his wrongful death.\nCivil actioN to recover damages for tlie alleged negligent killing of plaintiff's intestate.\nMotion to nonsuit was sustained. Plaintiff appealed.\n\u00edr. A. Smith, and T. AL. Adams for plaintiff.\nGansler & Gansler, John M. Robinson, Osborne, Goalee & Robinson for defendants."
  },
  "file_name": "0771-01",
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