Spigener v. Seaboard Air Line Ry.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Memminger, J., Richland, Spring term, 1918. Action by Sallie Glass Spigener and another against the Seaboard Air Line Railway and others.
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Before Memminger, J., Richland, Spring term, 1918. Action by Sallie Glass Spigener and another against the Seaboard Air Line Railway and others. Judgment for plaintiffs, and defendants appeal. submit: That it is perfectly clear that the Seaboard Air Line Railway, and the Pullman Company were jointly liable to the plaintiff for any negligence or wilfulness on the part of the employees of the Pullman Company in performing the duty of entraining the plaintiff, and hence it was error to dismiss the Pullman from the case: 84 S. C. 291 ; 89 S. C. 287; 90 S. C. 358; The George A. Fuller Company,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Fraser.
It will not be necessary to go into the minute details set out in the case. A general statement is enough in this Court.
The plaintiff, Mrs. Sallie Glass Spigener, lived with her husband near Allendale, in this State. She formerly lived in Columbia, and Dr. Watson, of Columbia, has been her family physician all of her life. Mrs. Spigener was in delicate health and was under the care of Dr. Watson. In the afternoon of the 30th of May, 1916, Mrs. Spigener was taken sick, and, being apprehensive of a serious and dangerous attack,…
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