Carter v. Southern Ry.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Klugh, J., Union, September, 1905. Action by Mamie Isabel Carter against Southern Railway Go. From judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. cite: Ticket may or may not be contract between passenger and carrier: 6 Cyc., 570, 585; 4 Fllioitt on R. R., par. 1593; Hutch, an Car., pars. 580, 580g; Ray’s Neg. of Imposed Duties, par. 56; 1 Fetter on Car. of Pass., 766. Passenger on wrong train must change cars: 9 Mack., 63 ; 6 Duer„ 533; 3 Thomji. on Neg., pars. 3563-4; 34…
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Before Klugh, J., Union, September, 1905. Action by Mamie Isabel Carter against Southern Railway Go. From judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. cite: Ticket may or may not be contract between passenger and carrier: 6 Cyc., 570, 585; 4 Fllioitt on R. R., par. 1593; Hutch, an Car., pars. 580, 580g; Ray’s Neg. of Imposed Duties, par. 56; 1 Fetter on Car. of Pass., 766. Passenger on wrong train must change cars: 9 Mack., 63 ; 6 Duer„ 533; 3 Thomji. on Neg., pars. 3563-4; 34 N. Y., 599. Conductor has no authority to disarrange sched%de: 65 Am. St. R., 35. Nor is he bound by special contract…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Woods.
The plaintiff, Mrs. Carter, recovered a judgment of $800'against the defendant, Southern Railway Company, for injuries which she alleges resulted from defendant refusing to stop its train and put her off at Zirconia, N. C., to which point she held a ticket, purchased at Union, S. C., where she had taken the train. The defendant’s appeal raises interesting questions as to the rights of a passenger holding a ticket toi a station at which the train he is on does not sltop.
The defendant had two daily trains passing Union, S- C., and…
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