McLendon v. Hampton Cotton Mills
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before DeVore, J., Richland, Summer term, 1917. Action by H. C. McLendon, as administrator of the estate of Victor McLendon, deceased, against the Hampton Cotton Mills Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. cite: As to error in not directing nonsuit on the ground that there ivas no evidence of negligence on the part of defendant: 6 Am. Negligence Rep., p. 74; 25 S. C. 29; 78 S. C. 10; 56 Am.
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Before DeVore, J., Richland, Summer term, 1917. Action by H. C. McLendon, as administrator of the estate of Victor McLendon, deceased, against the Hampton Cotton Mills Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. cite: As to error in not directing nonsuit on the ground that there ivas no evidence of negligence on the part of defendant: 6 Am. Negligence Rep., p. 74; 25 S. C. 29; 78 S. C. 10; 56 Am. St. Rep. 106; 150 U. S. 262; 14 Supreme Court 619; 38 L. Ed. 434; 154 111. 141; 30 N. E. 484; 27 L. R. A. 206; 45 Am. St. Rep. 114; 90 S. E. 445; 154 Pacific 442 ; 60 Kansas 217; 56…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Hydrick.
Defendant appeals from judgment for plaintiff for $5,000' damages for the death of plaintiff’s infant son by drowning in a reservoir built by defendant for the storage of water used in the operation of its cotton mill.
Plaintiff was an employee of defendant, and resided in the mill village several hundred yards from the reservoir. In August, 1915, his little boy, Victor, who was six years, and ten months old, and several other boys were passing the reservoir, when Victor proposed to them that they climb over the fence surrounding it…
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