Folk v. Seaboard Air Line Railway
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Gage, J., Bamberg, November, 1913. Action by Alma Folk against Seaboard Air Line- Railway to recover damages for injuries received at a railroad crossing. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. The pleadings, facts and the first exception to the charge to the jury are stated in the opinion of the Court. The charge on Circuit was as follows: There are four main questions for you to decide in this case.
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Before Gage, J., Bamberg, November, 1913. Action by Alma Folk against Seaboard Air Line- Railway to recover damages for injuries received at a railroad crossing. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. The pleadings, facts and the first exception to the charge to the jury are stated in the opinion of the Court. The charge on Circuit was as follows: There are four main questions for you to decide in this case. Get the allegations first thoroughly in your minds, and I think you will have no trouble about understanding what I say to you. It is contended by plaintiff’s counsel that on…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Watts.
This was an action for actual and punitive damages for alleged personal injuries to the plaintiff, caused by alleged negligent, reckless, wilful and wanton acts of the defendant at a public crossing, just outside the corporate limits of the town of Denmark, in the county of Bamberg, where the public highway crosses the defendant’s line of railroad. The plaintiff alleges in her complaint that on December 26, 1912, she was in a buggy drawn by a mule and driven by her brother going from her home in Bamberg county to the town of Denmark;…
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