Risinger v. Southern Ry.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Aldrich, J., Lexington, October, 1899. Action for damages for negligent killing, by Debby Risinger, administratrix, against Southern Railway Co. From order granting nonsuit, plaintiff appeals. The former cite: It is negligence to run a train at a reckless rate of speed through a town: 4 Am. & Eng.
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Before Aldrich, J., Lexington, October, 1899. Action for damages for negligent killing, by Debby Risinger, administratrix, against Southern Railway Co. From order granting nonsuit, plaintiff appeals. The former cite: It is negligence to run a train at a reckless rate of speed through a town: 4 Am. & Eng. R. R. Ca., 552; 8 Id., 267, 443, 280; 34 Id., 78. Place of accident zvas “traveled place:” 47 S. C., 375; 34 S. C., 444; 47 S. C., 332; 41 S. C., 20. Negligence to run train across highway before arriving at point of accident without giving statutory signals: 52 S. C., 326; 71 Mo., 51; 123 N.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Pope.
The complaint alleged that Jacob D. Risinger was killed on the 23d day of January, A. D. 1897, in the county of Lexington, in said State, by the defendant’s engine and tender, run on its track through the corporate limits of the town of Leesville, “so negligently, rapidly and unskilfully, and without giving the statutory signals of blowing its whistle and ringing the bell, across an open space adjoining a street crossing defendant’s track ia front of its depot, where people were accustomed to pass and repass continually in going from…
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