Stephens v. Southern Railway
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Memminger, J., Dorchester, April, 1908. Action by Thomas Stephens against Southern Railway, Carolina Division. From order of nonsuit, plaintiff appeals.
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Before Memminger, J., Dorchester, April, 1908. Action by Thomas Stephens against Southern Railway, Carolina Division. From order of nonsuit, plaintiff appeals. Mr. Bryan cites: 68 S'. C., 55; 73 S. C., 481; 205 U. S., 1; 3 Rich., 1; 67 S. C., 391; 78 S. C., 562; 66 S- C., 532; 79 S. C., 176; 80S. C., 1. cites: 19 S. C., 20; 77 S. C., 328; 78 S'. €., 374; 81 S. C., 193, 100; 70 S. C., 242; 73 S. C., 481; 22 Ind., 121; 22. Col., 363; 21 N. Y. Supp., 445; 153 Mass., 400; 12 C. C. A., 495; 47 Fed., 204; 71 Miss., 987; 41 S. C., 856; 37 W. Va., 524; 32 Con. Sup. Ct., 454; 95 Ga., 292; 111 N. C.,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justicei Woods.
This action was brought for damages on account of personal injuries suffered by the plaintiff while in defendant’s employment as a fireman. The appeal is from an order of nonsuit made on the ground that the evidence admitted of no other inference than that the injury was due to plaintiff’s own negligence or that his negligence contributed to it as a proximate cause. The facts may be shortly stated. Charles Alphonse was engineer and the plaintiff, fireman, on defendant’s freight train which left Columbia about seven o’clock on the…
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