Case Name: BERRY JACKSON v. J. A. JONES CONSTRUCTION COMPANY
Court: Supreme Court of North Carolina
Jurisdiction: North Carolina
Decision Date: 1929-05-08
Citations: 197 N.C. 781
Docket Number: 
Parties: BERRY JACKSON v. J. A. JONES CONSTRUCTION COMPANY.
Judges: 
Reporter: North Carolina Reports
Volume: 197
Pages: 781–782

Head Matter:
BERRY JACKSON v. J. A. JONES CONSTRUCTION COMPANY.
(Filed 8 May, 1929.)
Appeal by defendant from Sink, Special Judge, at February Special Term, 1929, of MeckleNbueg.
Civil action by plaintiff, employee of the defendant, to recover damages for personal injury, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant’s foreman, in directing and requiring plaintiff, while engaged in construction work in the city of Charlotte, to carry a crooked piece of steel, 10 or 15 feet long, weighing three or four hundred pounds, across a ditch four feet wide and about four feet deep, without any assistance, which caused plaintiff to fall, as he jumped the ditch, and resulted in serious injury to one of his legs.
Upon denial of liability and issues joined, there was a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff, from which the defendant appeals, assigning errors.
G. T. Carswell and Joe W. Bruin for plaintiff.
J. Laurence J ones for defendant.

Opinion:
Peb CueiaM.
The case presents no new question of law. It is not different in principle from Cherry v. R. R., 174 N. C., 263, 93 S. E., 783, or Pigford v. R. R., 160 N. C., 93, 75 S. E., 860. On authority of these cases the judgment will be upheld.
No error.