Supreme Court of North Carolina May 14, 1907 (Goforth v. Southern Railway Co.)

Clark, C. J.

Tbe plaintiff was thrown and injured by bis mule slipping and falling while plaintiff was driving him across tbe defendant’s track at Gardner’s Crossing, a flag station on defendant’s road. Tbe defendant bad always kept up this crossing from tbe time tbe road was built by having-planks nailed down between tbe rails and a plank on tbe outside of each rail.