Supreme Court of North Carolina, 1903

Frazier v. Wilkes.

Frazier v. Wilkes.
Supreme Court of North Carolina · Decided April 28, 1903 · Walker
43 S.E. 1004; 132 N.C. 437; 1903 N.C. LEXIS 311 (South Eastern Reporter)

Frazier v. Wilkes.

Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam.

The facts in the case come clearly within the language of Justice Montgomery speaking for the court in Raiford v. Railroad, 130 N. C., 597: “No act or omission, though resulting in damage, can be deemed actionable negligence unless the one responsible could, by the exercise of ordinary care, under all the circumstances, have foreseen that it might result in damage to some- one.” This is one of those *438 misfortunes against wbicb no reasonable human foresight could have made provision.

Affirmed.

Walker, J., having been of counsel did not sit on tho hearing of this case.

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