Ragin v. Northwestern R. Co.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Memmingkr, J., Manning, March, 1917. Action by C. H. Ragin against the Northwestern Railroad Company of South Carolina and another. Judgment in magistrate’s Court for defendant named, and on appeal to Circuit Court judgment reversed, and judgment rendered for plaintiff, and defendant named appeals. cite: As to effect of recitals in bill of lading: 85 S. C. 537; 94 S. C. 212; 99 S. C. 187, 198. cites: As to joinder of action: 95 S. C. 493; Code Civ. Proc., sec. 493.
1Opinion
On rehearing
the following order was made
2Per curiam
5 The first ground of plaintiff’s petition for a rehearing is that this Court has no jurisdiction to review findings of fact in a law case such as this is. That is true when the evidence is susceptible of mote than one inference. But we have often held that where only one inference is reasonably deducible from the evidence, it must be determined by the Court as matter of law. The opinion in this case shows that the Court reached the conclusion that the evidence was not sufficient, as matter of law, to sustain the judgment rendered by the Circuit Court…
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