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  "name": "W. D. POOLE v. NORFOLK SOUTHERN RAILROAD COMPANY",
  "name_abbreviation": "Poole v. Norfolk Southern Railroad",
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      "W. D. POOLE v. NORFOLK SOUTHERN RAILROAD COMPANY."
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        "text": "Pee Ctjeiam.\nThis is an action to recover damages for personal injury alleged to bave been caused by tbe negligence of tbe defendant. Tbe defendant\u2019s motion for nonsuit was granted and tbe plaintiff excepted and appealed.\nTbe plaintiff, an employee of tbe defendant, was in charge of a labor gang working in tbe defendant\u2019s yard in Raleigb. Tbe allegation of negligence is concise. In reference to it tbe plaintiff testified: \u201cI was instructed to stay with my gang of laborers and direct tbeir work. If I did not do so I was hollered at. None of my superiors were around there when I was' hurt. On tbe day I was hurt in August, 1921, I bad received orders from Mr. Lane to straighten up some barrels of paint lying on a platform. Tbe paint was used to paint box cars. Both old ears' and new ears. It was full of paint and weighed six or seven hundred pounds. I told tbe three Negro men to grab bold of tbe barrel and end it up. I told them to grab it up. While they were doing this it became overbalanced and Richard H\u00e1ll, in jumping to catch it stepped on my left foot. I was around there telling tbe Negroes what to do, I was bossing them. I told tbe men to go there and set up tbe barrel. I was three or four feet from tbe barrel when my foot was stepped on. There were some other barrels back on tbe platform and I could not bave gotten further back but could bave gotten to either side out of the way. I could have seen tbe movement of Richard Hall if I had looked and be could bave seen me if be bad looked.\u201d\nThe judgment of nonsuit was- correct. Simpson v. R. R., 154 N. C., 51; Lloyd v. R. R., 168 N. C., 646; Potter v. R. R., 197 N. C., 17. Judgment\nAffirmed.",
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        "author": "Pee Ctjeiam."
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    "attorneys": [
      "H. L. Swain for appellant.",
      "Simms & Simms for appellee."
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    "head_matter": "W. D. POOLE v. NORFOLK SOUTHERN RAILROAD COMPANY.\n(Filed 16 March, 1932.)\nMaster and Servant C l> \u2014 Evidence of employer\u2019s negligence held insufficient.\nIn this ease held: evidence of employer\u2019s negligence was insufficient to he submitted to the jury in action by foreman to recover for injuries sustained when workman moving heavy barrels under his direction stepped on his foot. \u25a0\nAppeal by plaintiff from Small, J., at October Term, 1931, of Wake.\nAffirmed.\nH. L. Swain for appellant.\nSimms & Simms for appellee."
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