Bowden v. Powell

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice EishburnE.

The plaintiffs brought three separate suits for the recovery of damages, actual and punitive, alleged to have been suffered by them because of the failure of the defendants to stop a passenger train at Myers, a flag station in Hampton County, so that they could get aboard. The causes of action arose out of the same facts and circumstances.. The plaintiffs allege that the conduct of the defendants in failing to stop the train for the plaintiffs'was negligent, willful, wanton, malicious, and in utter willful disregard of the…