Palmetto Fertilizer Co. v. Columbia, N. & L. R. R.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before F. B. Gary, J., Columbia, May, 1913. Action originally brought by Palmetto Fertilizer Company against Columbia, Newberry and Raurens Railroad Company, to which the Southern Railway Company and the Little Mountain Oil Mill and Fertilizer Company were made parties defendant, by amendment under order of Court, on the ground, that a complete determination of the rights of the parties could not be had without their presence.
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Before F. B. Gary, J., Columbia, May, 1913. Action originally brought by Palmetto Fertilizer Company against Columbia, Newberry and Raurens Railroad Company, to which the Southern Railway Company and the Little Mountain Oil Mill and Fertilizer Company were made parties defendant, by amendment under order of Court, on the ground, that a complete determination of the rights of the parties could not be had without their presence. The first trial was had in April, 1913, before Judge Sease, and a jury, when a verdict in the sum of $420 was found against the Little Mountain Oil Mill and Fertilizer…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Gage.
There is at issue 300 bags of cottonseed meal, worth $420.00.
A lot of meal was manufactured by. Little Mountain Oil Mill and Fertilizer Company,' and shipped by it to the plaintiff at Columbia.
Little Mountain is a station on the Columbia, Newberry and Laurens Railroad, betwixt Newberry and Columbia. The car was loaded on the 3d March, 1911; reached Columbia 5th March, and was delivered to plaintiff 8th March.
The shipment runs over the lines of the C., N. & L. Railroad to Columbia, and thence for 150 yards over the terminals of the…
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