111 S.E. 778 | N.C. | 1922
Seaboard passenger train No. 13, running from Wilmington to Charlotte, was wrecked on the night of 2 May, 1919, at a point approximately two miles west of Lilesville in Anson County. Investigation made on the night of the wreck showed that the train had been derailed by means of a "draw-bar" unlawfully placed on the railroad track by some person or persons, at that time unknown to the defendants. Plaintiff was an express messenger in the employment of the *468 defendant American Railway Express Company, and was in charge of the express car on the wrecked train. He brings suit against the (437) American Railway Express Company, the Seaboard Air Line Railway Company, and the Director General of Railroads, to recover damages for injuries alleged to have been sustained in said wreck. The jury having answered the issues of negligence in favor of the defendants, there was a judgment dismissing the action and taxing the plaintiff with the costs.
We have carefully examined the record and have been unable to find any reason for disturbing the result below. Upon the merits, we think the judgment must be affirmed. No reversible error has been shown.
It also appears that this case was tried in April, 1921. The appeal, therefore, should have been docketed and heard at the last term; or, at least, the record proper should have been seasonably docketed here and motion duly made for a certiorari. This latter writ is a discretionary one, and counsel may not dispense with it by agreement. In re McCade, ante, 242;S. v. Johnson, post; S. v. Hooker, post.
Animadverting upon a similar state of facts, in S. v. Trull,
"We note that this trial was had in June, 1914. Under the statute and rules of the Court this appeal was required to be docketed at the fall term of this Court before the call of the docket of the district to which it belongs, under penalty of dismissal. Rules 5 and 7,
No error. *469
Cited: Rose v. Rocky Mount,
(438)
