Peeples v. Seaboard Air Line Railway
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Bowman, J., Hampton, October, 1919. Action by W. E. and B. J. Peeples, as Administrators of the Estate of J. W. Peeples, Deceased, against Seaboard Air Line Railway.
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Before Bowman, J., Hampton, October, 1919. Action by W. E. and B. J. Peeples, as Administrators of the Estate of J. W. Peeples, Deceased, against Seaboard Air Line Railway. From judgment for plaintiffs, the defendant appeals. cite: Case was res adjudícala: 97 S. C. 27. No evidence of pain and suffering by deceased, and verdict should have been directed: 108 S. C. 201; 237 U. S. 647; 128 Tenn. 363; 173 Mich. 329; 125 Mass. 90; 108 Ark. 396; 134 Mass. 499; 68 Ark. 1; 145 U. S. 335; 145 Mass. 281. Pain and suffering substantially contemporaneous with death and inseparable as matter of lazo from…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Fraser.
Mr. J. W. Peeples, going along the principal street of Estill, a town in this State, found the street obstructed by a train of cars on the defendant road. There were three tracks across the street, and a freight train was across the middle track. There was a construction train on the first track. The freight train was moving off, and Mr. Peeples crossed the' first track and waited for the freight train to clear the street. For some unknown reason, Mr. Peeples walked backwards from the moving freight train. In the meantime the…
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