Redding v. South Carolina Railroad
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Action by William F. Redding and Julia D. Redding, his wife, to recover damages for injuries to the person of the female plaintiff alleged to have been committed by a servant of the defendant at the depot of the defendant, in the city of Charleston, on the 26th February, 1870. Mrs. Redding, the female plaintiff, Eliza Brown and Pharaoh Delair, were examined as witnesses for the plaintiffs, and each of them testified, in substance: That while Mrs. Julia D. Redding was sitting…
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Action by William F. Redding and Julia D. Redding, his wife, to recover damages for injuries to the person of the female plaintiff alleged to have been committed by a servant of the defendant at the depot of the defendant, in the city of Charleston, on the 26th February, 1870. Mrs. Redding, the female plaintiff, Eliza Brown and Pharaoh Delair, were examined as witnesses for the plaintiffs, and each of them testified, in substance: That while Mrs. Julia D. Redding was sitting in the ladies’ parlor of the South Carolina Railroad Company Depot, at Charleston, in the said County, on the-day of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Wright, A. J.
The action was brought by Redding and wife, the plaintiffs, to recover damages for an injury sustained by the wife in the passenger saloon of the defendant. The facts of the case are as follows : While the wife, on the evening of February, 1870, was sitting at the depot of the defendant in Charleston, in the parlor assigned for lady passengers, awaiting the departure of the train for Columbia, which she proposed to take, one Wollen, assuming to have charge of the said room, as the servant of the defendant, informed her that he was…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Weed v. . the Panama Railroad CompanyNew York Court of Appeals · 1858
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- Marlowe v. . BlandSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1910