Harman v. Hines, Director General
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Action by T. L. Harmon against Walker D. Hines, Director General of Railroads. From an order overruling motion to set aside service, defendant appeals. submits: The service should have been made upon an operating official operating the Seaboard Air Line Railway, the railroad in respect of which the cause of action arose: General Orders No. SO and No. 50a; 99 S. E. 846; Northern Pacific Railway Company v. State of North Dokata, 249 U. S. —; 39 Sup.
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Action by T. L. Harmon against Walker D. Hines, Director General of Railroads. From an order overruling motion to set aside service, defendant appeals. submits: The service should have been made upon an operating official operating the Seaboard Air Line Railway, the railroad in respect of which the cause of action arose: General Orders No. SO and No. 50a; 99 S. E. 846; Northern Pacific Railway Company v. State of North Dokata, 249 U. S. —; 39 Sup. Ct. 502; 63 E. Ed. 258; Fed. 945; 254 Fed. 880; 256 Fed. 549. (oral argument).
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Watts.
“This is an action for the value of six bales of cotton alleged to have been delivered to defendant at Swansea, a station on the line of the Seaboard Air Fine Railway, in Lexington county, on or about May 25, 1918, to be carried to the plaintiff at Lexington, a station on the line of the Southern Railway Company. February 13, 1919, the summons was served upon the agent on a line of the Southern Railway at Lexington. A motion was duly made to set aside the service of the summons on the ground that J. C. Kirkland, upon whom the service…
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