SWANGER v. RICE

No. 100.

96 S.E.2d 836 (1957)

245 N.C. 612

J. W. SWANGER v. H. M. RICE and Ronald A. Rice, Trading and d/b/a H. M. Rice & Son.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

March 6, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Don C. Young and Narvel Crawford, Asheville, for plaintiff-appellant.

Meekins, Packer & Roberts, Asheville, for defendants-appellees.


PER CURIAM.

Defendants, who were general contractors for the repair of a burned building, employed plaintiff, who had been engaged in the electrical business 36 years, to do temporary electrical work in the burned building to supply light so the repair work could begin. Plaintiff, in doing his work, was walking a foot or so to the right of a ragged edged burned-out hole in the floor six or eight feet square, that he had seen and passed several times before, when a...

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