Gentry v. Richmond, R. R.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Hudson, J., Spartanburg, October, 1891. This was an action byL. Miles Gentry against the Richmond and Danville Railroad Company, to recover damages for injury to land. On the cross-examination of plaintiff, while on the witness stand, he was asked at what price he had sold the land, above the factory, to the Beaumont Mills in 1890. Objection to this question was overruled.
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Before Hudson, J., Spartanburg, October, 1891. This was an action byL. Miles Gentry against the Richmond and Danville Railroad Company, to recover damages for injury to land. On the cross-examination of plaintiff, while on the witness stand, he was asked at what price he had sold the land, above the factory, to the Beaumont Mills in 1890. Objection to this question was overruled. J. H. Montgomery, a witness for defendant, testified that he had seen the land frequently for ten or twelve years; that he had gone to see it six months before the trial, and again on the day before, and that not.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mr. Ohiee Justice MoIyer.
This action was commenced in February, 1890, for the purpose of recovering damages alleged to have been done to plaintiff’s property by the defendant company. In the complaint, three causes of action are stated: 1st. Because the defendant so negligently constructed a culvert, under an embankment where the railroad runs through plaintiff’s land, as that the water on the north side of the road was backed up on plaintiff’s land, so as to render the same almost worthless; and, further, that, owing to *287the improper and insufficient…
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