Webber v. Town of Jonesville
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Sease, J., Union, May term, 1912. Action by Ducindy A¥. Webber against the town of Jones-ville, John T. Scott, John M. Gault, Geo. H. Fairbanks, F. M. Ellerbe and John C. Mobley. Defendants appeal. If evidence is not sufficient to bind one party, new trial should be granted as to all: 73 S. C. 181; 83 Ind. 133; 16 Fed.
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Before Sease, J., Union, May term, 1912. Action by Ducindy A¥. Webber against the town of Jones-ville, John T. Scott, John M. Gault, Geo. H. Fairbanks, F. M. Ellerbe and John C. Mobley. Defendants appeal. If evidence is not sufficient to bind one party, new trial should be granted as to all: 73 S. C. 181; 83 Ind. 133; 16 Fed. R. 839; 1 Tenn. 363; 4 Humph. 373. On allegation of specific negligence, evidence of other negligence is incompetent: 45 S. C. 376. After argument and instructions it should be assumed jury did not intend to find against town for damages: 47 S. C. 35S. Scott is liable…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Watts.
This was an action by the plaintiff against the town of Jonesville and the mayor and aldermen of the said town, the other defendants, for the recovery of the possession of about three hundred square feet of land and for actual and punitive damages for one thousand dol lars. The plaintiff alleged, among other allegations, that on ■or about the first day of July, 1910, the defendants, against her protest and in violation of law and with intent to injure the plaintiff in her said property and humiliate her in the eyes of the community,…
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