Turner v. Manufacturing Company
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Shipp, J., Action by Annie Turner against F. W. Poe Mfg. Co., for personal injuries received while in- defendant’s employment. From judgment on- a verdict for plaintiff, defendant appeals. No proof of master's negligence: 20 A. & E. Ene.
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Before Shipp, J., Action by Annie Turner against F. W. Poe Mfg. Co., for personal injuries received while in- defendant’s employment. From judgment on- a verdict for plaintiff, defendant appeals. No proof of master's negligence: 20 A. & E. Ene. (2d ed.) 77, 142-143; 72 S. C. 402; 39 S. C. 39. Servant was awa/re of danger: 55 S. C. 483; 72 S. C. 237. Plaintiff assumed risk: 79 S. C. 502; 70 S. C. 242; 84 S. C. 283; 89 S. C. 502; 86 S. C. 69; Eabatt Master and Servant, sec. 1249. Sufficiency of testimony for jury: 50 S. C. 556. Servant not charged with duty to discover defects: 86 S. C. 441; 26…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Gage.
1 The record is too voluminous; there are 108 pages of printed testimony; one-half of it is not relevant to1 the _ issues made by the appeal. This is a great hardship on litigants, and ought not to be imposed upon them.
The plaintiff, forty years old, once a widow and now again married, had / a verdict below, and the defendant appeals.
She sued two years after the event. She was a spare weaver, and had only begun tO' operate that loom the afternoon before the day of the accident, thought she had operated many looms at other mills, and…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Edgens v. Gaffney Mfg. Co.Supreme Court of South Carolina · 1904
3Cited by4 opinions
- Holmes v. Davis, Dir. Gen.Supreme Court of South Carolina · 1923
- Holmes v. Davis, Dir. Gen.Supreme Court of South Carolina · 1923
- Hopkins v. Southern Cotton Oil Co.Supreme Court of South Carolina · 1928
- James v. Gaffney Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of South Carolina · 1930