Hayes v. Atlantic Coast Line R. Co.

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Associate Justice Stukes.

This action was brought, under Lord Campbell’s Act, Code 1932 §§ 411, 412, for damages, actual and punitive, accruing to the plaintiff, the father and sole beneficiary, on account of the death of his intestate son whose mangled body was found upon and along the track of the defendant railroad company near and northeast of its Marlboro station in this State.

It was alleged in the complaint that on the Sunday afternoon of May 15, 1938, the deceased, who was twenty-two years old and lived and worked with his father on the…