Court Opinion

ID: 9809957
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 21:35:22.833769+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:39:15.812433
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MoNtgombey, J.,
concurs in the conclusion reached in the opinion of the Court that a new trial must be had and for the reason assigned. Pie thinks, however, that his Honor should have given No. 13 of the defendant’s special prayers for instruction, which Was in the following language: “If the jury find from tire evidence that intestate went to defendant’s depot for the purpose of heating a ride on one of defendant’s trains, then intestate was >a trespasser from the moment he entered defendant’s premises and the defendant owed him no duty except not to injure him wantonly or wilfully or with such carelessness as amounts to a reckless disregard of conse-*477quemces.” And it. follows, therefore, if that view is- correct, that that part of bis Honor’s charge which laid down the law governing the defendant’s duty towiard the intestate and its liability for the injury inflicted on him as thalb which would be applicable to one who had a right to be at the depot — excepted to by the defendant in 1, 2, 8 and 4 of its exceptions— was erroneous. The witness Brittain testified that the intestate told him a short time before he wlas killed that he intended beating bis way on the train to Hickory from Mor-ganton.
Cook, J., concurs in above.