Enlee v. Seaboard Air Line Ry.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Prince, J. Richland, Fall term, 1917. Action by Charley N. Enlee and Dasey Belle Enlee against the Seaboard Air Line Railway. Judgment for plaintiffs, and defendant appeals.
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Before Prince, J. Richland, Fall term, 1917. Action by Charley N. Enlee and Dasey Belle Enlee against the Seaboard Air Line Railway. Judgment for plaintiffs, and defendant appeals. The charge was as follows: Mr. Foreman and Gentlemen of the Jury: The plaintiffs come into Court, and complaining of the defendant by their complaint, allege against the defendant that at the time mentioned in the complaint they sought to obtain transportation from the Seaboard Railway from Columbia, S. C., to Orangeburg, S. C. It is alleged that they asked the ticket agent of the defendant company for two tickets…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Watts.
This is an appeal from a judgment of $100 actual and $500 punitive damages based on the verdict of a jury of Richland county.
Plaintiff contended that on July 24, 1916, he went to defendant’s depot in Columbia and paid the agent $2.50 for two tickets (for himself and wife) to Orangeburg; that the agent handed him a green strip of paper on which were several sections or divisions, which plaintiff assumed was a ticket for two persons; that plaintiff and his wife boarded the train, and were informed by the conductor that the ticket was…
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