Cobb v. Columbia, &c., Railroad
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Kershaw, J., Abbeville, October, 1891. This was an action commenced by Butler W. Cobb against the Columbia and Greenville Railroad Company, on August 27, 1891, to recover damages for the value of a horse belonging t.o plaintiff, and alleged to have died from injuries received in running away when hitched to a plow and at work near the road-bed of defendant on May 19, 1891, plaintiff alleging that the horse had been frightened and caused to run by the unnecessary,…
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Before Kershaw, J., Abbeville, October, 1891. This was an action commenced by Butler W. Cobb against the Columbia and Greenville Railroad Company, on August 27, 1891, to recover damages for the value of a horse belonging t.o plaintiff, and alleged to have died from injuries received in running away when hitched to a plow and at work near the road-bed of defendant on May 19, 1891, plaintiff alleging that the horse had been frightened and caused to run by the unnecessary, negligent, and Wilful sounding of whistles and blowing off of steam, and shouting, yelling, Sac., of the train crew. At the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Pope.
This appeal is from a judgment obtained at the October term, 1891, of the Court of Common Pleas for Abbeville County, by the plaintiff against defendant, and is upon three grounds: first, the refusal of defendant’s motion for a non-suit; second, the refusal of the defendant’s motion for a new trial for insufficiency of testimony; and third, for errors of law in the charge of his honor, Judge Kershaw, to the jury.
*1991 Under the decisions of this court, controlling the granting of non-suits and new trials, we see no error here. As to the…
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