{
  "id": 11277431,
  "name": "PETER WAGONER v. THE NORTH CAROLINA RAIL ROAD COMPANY",
  "name_abbreviation": "Wagoner v. North Carolina Rail Road",
  "decision_date": "1858-06",
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  "first_page": "367",
  "last_page": "369",
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    "name_abbreviation": "N.C.",
    "id": 9292,
    "name": "Supreme Court of North Carolina"
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  "provenance": {
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    "parties": [
      "PETER WAGONER v. THE NORTH CAROLINA RAIL ROAD COMPANY."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Pearson, J.\nThere is error. The warrant issued by the justice of the peace is fatally defective in this, it does not set out with certainty, the manner in which the damage was sustained. It may be that the injury was done to the plaintiff\u2019s person, or to his fencing, or houses, or slaves, or cattle. So the proceeding does not enable tbe court to see that tbe injury was of sucli a nature, as to enable tbe plaintiff to sue by warrant.\nIt is unnecessary to decide whether service could rightfully be made, so as to bind tbe company, on Scott, who was tbe agent at Graham station. By tbe Revised Code, ch. 1Y, sec. 7, where an injury is done to cattle, or other live stock, a warrant may be served on the president, or any director, stockholder, or acting agent. This would seem to conflict with the Y sec. of the charter of the company, which provides \u201cThat notice of process upon the principal agents of said company, or the president, or any of the directors thereof, shall be deemed duo service to bring it before any court.\u201d\nThe judgment in the court below must be reversed, and judgment entered for the defendant.\nPeR OueiaM, Judgment reversed.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Pearson, J."
      }
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    "attorneys": [
      "Winston, sen., for the plaintiff.",
      "McLean, for defendant."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "PETER WAGONER v. THE NORTH CAROLINA RAIL ROAD COMPANY.\nA warrant against a Rail Road Company \u201cfor the non-payment of a certain sum \u201cdue by damage sustained,\u201d there being nothing in any other part of the proceedings to make it more certain, is fatally defective.\nWhether service of process on a mere station agent 'On the North Carolina Rail Road is good; Quere?\nAppeal from a proceeding by warrant, tried before Saw-ders, J., at the last Spring Term of Alamance Superior Court.\nThe questions in this case were\u2014\n1. Whether the warrant was sufficient on its face to au-thorise the Court to proceed to judgment.\n2. Whether the service was sufficient.\nThe following is a copy of the warrant:\n\u201c State of North Carolina, Alamance County.\nTo any lawful officer to execute and return within thirty days from the date hereof, (sundays excepted:)\nYou are hereby commanded to summon the North Carolina Nail Noad Company or James S. Scott, agent, and them safely keep, so that you have them before me, or some other justice of the peace for the said county, to answer the complaint of Peter Wagoner, for the non-payment of the sum of $35 due by damage sustained.\u201d\nThe warrant was returned \u201c executed on James S. Scott.\u201d This person was the agent of the corporation, at the Graham station on the said rail road, with power to receive freight on goods transported, and fare from passengers departing, for which he was bound to account monthly; but he had no other power, or authority, over the affairs of the said company. The case came up by successive appeals to the Superior Court. A motion was made to dismiss the proceeding for want of sufficient certainty in the warrant, which -was refused by his Honor. Defendant submitted to judgment for twenty-five dollars, with leave to appeal to the Supreme Court.\nAppeal by defendant.\nWinston, sen., for the plaintiff.\nMcLean, for defendant."
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