Lundy v. Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before DeVoRE, J., Richland, May, 1910. Action by Minnie C. Lundy, administratrix of Charles Lundy, against Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company and Columbia Electric Street Railway, Light and Power Company.
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Before DeVoRE, J., Richland, May, 1910. Action by Minnie C. Lundy, administratrix of Charles Lundy, against Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company and Columbia Electric Street Railway, Light and Power Company. The defendant, Telephone Company, appeals on the following exceptions: 1. “That his Honor erred in allowing the plaintiff, Mrs. Minnie C. Lundy, to testify, over the objection of defendant’s counsel, that since the death of her husband she had been working in a hosiery mill for the support of herself and child; that prior to her marriage she had not been accustomed to do that…
1Opinion of the Court
November 13, 1911. The opinion of the Court was delivered by This is an action, by administratrix of the estate of Charles Lundy, deceased, for damages on account of the death of her husband, Charles Lundy, alleged to have been caused by the joint and concurrent negligence, recklessness, wilfulness, and wantonness of the defendants.
The complaint alleges, that the defendants at the time hereinafter mentioned, were corporations doing business in the city of Columbia and respectively owning and maintaining plants, poles and wires, suspended on poles therein.
That on or about the 11th day of June,…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Weaver v. Southern Ry.Supreme Court of South Carolina · 1907
- Dantzler v. Cox & DantzlerSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1906
- Parsons v. Charleston Consolidated Ry., Gas & Electric Co.Supreme Court of South Carolina · 1904
- Rhodes v. Granby Cotton MillsSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1910
- Bishop v. BourgeoisNew Jersey Court of Chancery · 1899
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- Frye v. McCrory Stores CorporationWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1959
- State Auto Insurance Co. v. StuartCourt of Appeals of South Carolina · 1985
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