Hodge v. Piedmont & N. R. Co.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Mauedin, J., Spartanburg, Spring term, 1917. Action by Anderson Hodge, for false arrest, against Piedmont and Northern Railway Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. cite: As to sufficiency of warrant: 29 S. C. 180; 81 S. C. 131; 40 S. C. 298. As to conductor ■assisting in the arrest: Code of Laws, sec. 3273; 80 S. C. 332. cite: As to condtcctor assisting in the arrest: Vol. I, Code of Laws 1912, sec. 3273; Crim. Code, sec. 672; 64 S. C. 326; vol.
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Before Mauedin, J., Spartanburg, Spring term, 1917. Action by Anderson Hodge, for false arrest, against Piedmont and Northern Railway Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. cite: As to sufficiency of warrant: 29 S. C. 180; 81 S. C. 131; 40 S. C. 298. As to conductor ■assisting in the arrest: Code of Laws, sec. 3273; 80 S. C. 332. cite: As to condtcctor assisting in the arrest: Vol. I, Code of Laws 1912, sec. 3273; Crim. Code, sec. 672; 64 S. C. 326; vol. I, Code of Laws 1912, sec. 3274; Hutchison on Carriers, vol. II (2d ed.), p. 1132; 9 S. C. 308; 2 Strobh. 74; 70 S. C. 72;…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Fraser.
The plaintiff claims that while he was a passenger on the defendant’s train, a man named Haddon, who claimed to be a constable, came into the car in which the plaintiff was riding and forcibly arrested him; that he demanded the production of 'the warrant for his arrest, but Haddon refused to produce it; and that the conductor of defendant’s car assisted in the arrest, with full knowledge of the demand for and refusal to produce the warrant. The judgment was for the plaintiff and the defendant appealed upon 16 exceptions. The…
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