Owens v. Atlantic Coast Lumber Corp.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Shipp, J., Georgetown, June, 1916. Action by Julius Owens against the Atlantic Coast Lumber Corporation. From an order sustaining a demurrer to the complaint, plaintiff appeals. cites: As to construction of pleadings: 8 S. C. 103; 12 S. C. 1; 29 S. C. 258; 70 S. C. 274; 31 Cyc. 290. Contractual duty to afford medical treatment: 98 S. C. 25; 211 Mo. 419; 17 L. R. A. (N. S.) 1167; 124 S. W. 202; 30 L. R. A. (N. S.) 1207; 153 Ind. 119; 58 N. E. 738; 6 Cyc. 900; 9 Cyc.…
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Before Shipp, J., Georgetown, June, 1916. Action by Julius Owens against the Atlantic Coast Lumber Corporation. From an order sustaining a demurrer to the complaint, plaintiff appeals. cites: As to construction of pleadings: 8 S. C. 103; 12 S. C. 1; 29 S. C. 258; 70 S. C. 274; 31 Cyc. 290. Contractual duty to afford medical treatment: 98 S. C. 25; 211 Mo. 419; 17 L. R. A. (N. S.) 1167; 124 S. W. 202; 30 L. R. A. (N. S.) 1207; 153 Ind. 119; 58 N. E. 738; 6 Cyc. 900; 9 Cyc. 240; 4 Wheaton 518. Doctrine of respondeat superior: 104 S. C. 197. cite: The funds collected by employer for medical…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Hydrick.
Plaintiff appeals from an order sustaining a demurrer to his complaint for damages for breach of defendant’s contract to provide medical attention to his sick wife, for the lack of which she died.
The complaint alleges that defendant employs a great number of men, and deducts $1 from the monthly wages of each to maintain a staff of two physicians to render medical attention to its employees and their families, when needed and requested; that while he was employed by defendant his wife became ill, and needed medical attention, and he…
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