Woodstock Hardwood & Spool Mfg. Co. v. Charleston Light & Water Co.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Klugh, J., Berkeley, Action by the Woodstock Hardwood Spool Mfg. Co. against Charleston Light and Water Co. From judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. Messrs.
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Before Klugh, J., Berkeley, Action by the Woodstock Hardwood Spool Mfg. Co. against Charleston Light and Water Co. From judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. Messrs. Mitchell, Whaley & Bissell, cite: Appellant was not a tresspasser: 10 Ency., 1111, 1114; 21 Ency., 737; 35 S. C., 488, 501. Instruction to award more than actual damage is error: 28 Ency., 605. Injury must he direct: 30 S. C., 539; 1 Hill., 365; 3 S. C., 447; 46 S. C., 377; 68 S. C., 540; 54 S. C., 242. Evidence as to capital stock: 16 S. C., 556; 25 S. C., 322; 29 S. C., 518; 30 S. C., 497; 35 S. C., 197; 38 S. C., 258; 33…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Woods.
This is an appeal from a judgment of $25,000 recovered by the plaintiff against the defendant for damages alleged to have been inflicted on the plaintiff by the erection of a dam on Goose Creek, which flooded the lands leased to the plaintiff, injured its timber and destroyed its business. This appeal is the culmination of a litigation which has taken such varying forms that in order to present the real issues an extended statement of facts is necessary, and logical sequence in making the statement requires repetition in condensed…
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