Kirkland v. Augusta-Aiken Railway & Electric Corp.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Copes, J., Aiken, April, term, 1912. Action -by Ella Kirkland, -administratrix of B. D. Kirkland, against Augusta-Aiken Railway and Electric Corporation. Defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Watts.
This was an action by plaintiff against the defendant for actual and punitive damages for the alleged negligent and wanton killing of the plaintiff’s intestate by the agents and servants of the defendant. The case was tried by his Honor, Judge Copes, and a jury, at the April term of Court, 1913, for Aiken county, and resulted in a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for the sum of five hundred dollars, which verdict, on plaintiff’s motion, was set aside by the presiding Judge on the ground of inadequacy of the damages and a new trial…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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