Bowman v. Northwestern R. Co.

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Watts.

The following is the statement:

“This action was commenced by the .service of a summons and complaint on the 25th day of March, 1922, for the recovery of damages alleged to have been suffered by the plaintiff on account of injury to 322 bales of cotton shipped over defendant’s railroad in the summer of 1919, and was tried' before Judge Featherstone and a jury at the Spring term of Court, 1924, at Sumter, S. C.

“Mr. Moise, of counsel for the plaintiff, stated that Mr. R. H. Deas, one of his witnesses, was absent. His statement was…