Turman v. Seaboard Air Line Ry.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Hon. C. J. Ramage, special Judge, Camden, Fall term, 1914. Action by Bessie Mae Turman and husband against the Seaboard Air Line Railway and another.
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Before Hon. C. J. Ramage, special Judge, Camden, Fall term, 1914. Action by Bessie Mae Turman and husband against the Seaboard Air Line Railway and another. From a judgment for plaintiffs, the named defendant appeals. cite: As to effect of stipulation on free pass: 226 U. S. 491; 234 U. S. 576. As to punitive damages: 147 U. S. 101; 95 Fed. 657; 112 Fed. 114; 124 Fed. 983; 91 Fed. 462; 128 Fed. 85; 96 Fed. 929. submits: Stipulation not valid as against wilful acts: 192 U. S. 517; 75 S. C. 298; 87 Am. St. Rep. 265; 74 S. C. 102-104; 160 N. C. 196.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Gage.
Action for injuries to the body, sustained while the plaintiff was a passenger on the defendant’s cars. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff.
History: The plaintiff was traveling from Hamlet, in North Carolina, to Savannah, in Georgia. She was riding on a “free pass,” called an employee’s trip pass. On that ticket pass it was provided that the person accepting it agrees that the carrier shall not “be liable under any circumstances, whether of negligence of agent or otherwise, for any injury to the person * * * of the passenger…
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