Thompson v. Seaboard Air Line Railway
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Princb J., Lexington, Action by J. M. Thompson against Seaboard Air Line Ry. From judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. cite: If there zvm no negligence in running the train, defendant was not liableas defect in bridge did not cause the injury: 57 S. C., 433. Oral argument.
1Opinion of the Court
October 17, 1907. The opinion of the Court was delivered by The plaintiff, J.M. Thompson, a citizen of Lexington County, owned, in March, 1905, a pair of mules, wagon and harness. On the 9th of March he hired them to his brother to do some hauling, who about 9 o'clock that night was traveling along the Two Notch road, a public highway in Richland County, at a point where the highway crosses the track of the defendant, about nine miles from Columbia. In attempting to cross a bridge at the crossing the front wheel of the wagon missed the end of the bridge and went into the ditch, thus stopping…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Brown v. Spartanburg, Union & Columbia R. R.Supreme Court of South Carolina · 1900
- Felder v. Southern Ry.Supreme Court of South Carolina · 1907
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