Legal Opinion
McClain v. Charleston & W. C. Ry. Co.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Decided August 29, 1939No. 14938PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. A. FGaston, Acting Associate Justice.
This is an appeal from an order of nonsuit. Mrs. Fucile McClain was an employee of the defendant company as telegraph operator and railroad station agent from September 1, 1918, until she was laid off after her injury in January, 1937. She was injured on July 21, 1936, by a fall while in the act of crossing the tracks in the yard for the purpose of carrying out instructions of the dispatcher to stop the through freight at her station of Ellenton to pick up a very urgent shipment of fruit baskets or hampers to be…
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- Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. DeAtleyCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1914
- Nelson v. Southern Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1918
- Douglass v. Southern Ry.Supreme Court of South Carolina · 1908
- Blalock v. Graniteville Mfg. Co.Supreme Court of South Carolina · 1937
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