Horton v. Pullman Co.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Shipp, J., York, Spring term, 1917. Action by Zula Horton against the Pullman Company. From an order setting aside verdict for punitive damages, plaintiff appeals. submits: There was evidence tending to support the verdict: 105 S. C. 287;.73 S. C. 503; 68 S. C. 55; 25 S. C. 133; 63 S. C. 576; 103 S. C. 113; 23 Am. St. Rep. 356; 42 Fed. Rep. 484; 129 Am.
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Before Shipp, J., York, Spring term, 1917. Action by Zula Horton against the Pullman Company. From an order setting aside verdict for punitive damages, plaintiff appeals. submits: There was evidence tending to support the verdict: 105 S. C. 287;.73 S. C. 503; 68 S. C. 55; 25 S. C. 133; 63 S. C. 576; 103 S. C. 113; 23 Am. St. Rep. 356; 42 Fed. Rep. 484; 129 Am. St Rep. 67; 89 S. C. 286; 100 S. C. 284; 98 S. C. 338; 101 S. C. 11; 91 S. C. 71; 89 S. C. 432; 34 R. R. A. 205; 59 Am. St. Rep. 896; 24 Am. St. Rep. 437; 74 Miss. 782; 2 Neg. Rep. 586; 24 Am. St. Rep. 434; 58 Ga. 216; 24 Am. Rep. 689;…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Hydrick.
Plaintiff brought this action to recover actual and punitive damages. She testified that in September, 1916, she was a passenger on one of defendant’s cars from Charlotte, N. C., to New York City; that, although the conductor and porter who had charge of the car knew her destination, they put her off at Newark, N. J., a station about six miles from New York, telling her that she had arrived at her destination; that she did not discover the mistake until after the train was moving off from the station, when she called to the Pullman…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Greer v. Western Union Telegraph Co.Supreme Court of South Carolina · 1916