Blakely v. Laurens Co.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Townsend, J., Laurens, October, 1898. Action by Augustus Blakely, by his guardian ad litem, Thad. Blakely, against Laurens County, for damages resulting from defective repairs in bridge on public highway.
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Before Townsend, J., Laurens, October, 1898. Action by Augustus Blakely, by his guardian ad litem, Thad. Blakely, against Laurens County, for damages resulting from defective repairs in bridge on public highway. From order granting nonsuit, plaintiff appeals. cites: As to proximate cause: 3 Wils., 403. Negligence is a mixed question of law and fact, and case should have gone to jury: 51 S. C, 150; 25 S. C, 30; 48 S. C., 190. cite: This case is ruled by 38 S. C., 282; 40 S. C., 390.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Me. Chief Justice McIver.
This was an action to recover damages sustained by the plaintiff by reason of negligence on the part of the defendant in keeping in repair a bridge on a highway in the county of Laurens, while attempting to cross said bridge. • The allegations in the com*423plaint are that, at the time the disaster occurred, there was a hole in the floor of said bridge; that the bridge was too narrow for the safety of the traveling public, and part of the railing of the bridge was wanting, having been allowed to become rotten or fallen off; that…
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