Porter v. Charleston & Savannah Ry. Co.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Aldrich, J., Beaufort, June, 1901. Action by H. H. Porter against Charleston and Savannah Railway Co. Prom Circuit decree sustaining judgment of magistrate for plaintiff, defendant appeals. Circuit decree upon questions involved on appeal is as follows: “This action comes before this Court upon an. appeal, brought by defendant, from the judgment of Magistrate H. D. Burnet, rendered herein.
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Before Aldrich, J., Beaufort, June, 1901. Action by H. H. Porter against Charleston and Savannah Railway Co. Prom Circuit decree sustaining judgment of magistrate for plaintiff, defendant appeals. Circuit decree upon questions involved on appeal is as follows: “This action comes before this Court upon an. appeal, brought by defendant, from the judgment of Magistrate H. D. Burnet, rendered herein. On page 443 of the 22d vol. of the Statutes of South Carolina, among the acts of 1897, we find an act entitled, ‘An act to require all common carriers to pay all loss of or damages for loss, damage…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Chiee Justice McIver.
This action was instituted in a magistrate’s court, and carried thence by appeal to the Court of Common Pleas, and from the judgment of the last mentioned Court this appeal has been taken. The object of the action was to recover the penalty imposed by the second section of an act entitled “An act to require all common carriers to pay all loss of, or damage for loss, damage and breakage of any article shipped over their lines, or to refuse to do so within a certain time,” approved 25th February, 1897, 22 Stat., 443. The…
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