Southern Ry. Co. v. Carroll

BOYD, District Judge.

John L,. Carroll, the plaintiff below, brought this action against the Southern Railway Company, the defendant below, alleging that whilst he was in the act of driving, with his horse and buggy, across the railroad of the defendant, at a public crossing in the suburbs of Union, S. C., on the 2d of April, 1900, at 9 or 10 o’clock at night, the said defendant, by its servants and employes, negligently caused a locomotive drawing a train of cars on its railroad to run against, into, and upon him, the plaintiff, killing his horse, breaking his buggy, and injuring him in…