TAYLOE v. SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH CO.

No. 386.

129 S.E.2d 512 (1963)

258 N.C. 766

Thomas Herman TAYLOE, by his Next Friend, Carroll H. Matthews, v. SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY and Z. A. Sneeden's Sons, Inc. Thomas E. TAYLOE v. SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY and Z. A. Sneeden's Sons, Inc.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

February 27, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

White & Crumpler, Leslie G. Frye and Harrell Powell, Jr., Winston-Salem, for plaintiff, appellees.

Hudson, Ferrell, Petree, Stockton, Stockton & Robinson, by R. M. Stockton, Jr., and W. F. Maready, Winston-Salem, for defendant, appellant.


SHARP, Justice.

Herman Tayloe, the minor plaintiff, was injured on May 8, 1960 when a dynamite cap he had found near a telephone pole exploded in his hand. A description of the terrain adjacent to the pole, as it was in May 1960, is necessary to an understanding of the case.

Ebert Street Extension is a paved highway which runs southwardly from Winston-Salem. Fraternity Church Road runs generally east and west between U. S. No. 158 and Ebert Street Extension...

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