HILL v. CAROLINA FREIGHT CARRIERS CORP

No. 599.

71 S.E.2d 133 (1952)

235 N.C. 705

HILL v. CAROLINA FREIGHT CARRIERS CORP.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

June 11, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D. A. Rendleman, Salisbury, and Morton & Williams, Albemarle, for plaintiff appellant.

Don A. Walser, Lexington, for defendant appellee.


BARNHILL, Justice.

Defendant asserts two affirmative defenses, either one of which, if well founded, would, on the facts admitted in the pleadings, bar plaintiff's right to recover. This is true unless, as contended by plaintiff, the master is not protected under the fellow servant doctrine against liability for damages to the personal property of his servant caused by the negligent act of a fellow servant committed in the course, and in the furtherance, of his master...

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