Lorick v. Seaboard Air Line Ry.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before SrasE, J., Lexington, November term, 1915. Action by J. H. Lorick against the Seaboard Air Line Railway. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
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Before SrasE, J., Lexington, November term, 1915. Action by J. H. Lorick against the Seaboard Air Line Railway. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. Mr. J. B. S. Lyles cites: As to plaintiff’s own negligence was sole cause of injury: 61 S. C. 468, 489; 59 S. C. 539; 66 Fed. 193; 6 C: C. A. 190. No proximate causal connection: 101 S. C. 563; 105 U. S. 449; 89 S. C. 23; 229 U! S. 265. Assumption of risk: 102 S. C. 504; 56 Fed. 973; 6 C. C. A. 190, 198, 199. cite: 237 U. S. 399; 222 U. S. 19.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion .of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Watts.
This is the second appeal in this case. The case is reported in 102 S. C. 276, 86 S. E. 675. At the trial of the case the first time a motion was made and granted by the Circuit Court on the ground the defendant had assumed the risk, an appeal was taken and the case reversed by this Court. On the second trial in the Circuit Court a motion was made for a directed verdict by the defendant on the ground that the plaintiff had assumed the risk, and that no other inference could be drawn from the evidence in the case, and that there was…
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