Nohrden v. North Eastern R. R.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Benet, J., Charleston, April, 1898. Action by Wm. C. Nohrden, as administrator of Harold Wm. Nohrden, against North Eastern Railroad Company. From verdict and judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
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Before Benet, J., Charleston, April, 1898. Action by Wm. C. Nohrden, as administrator of Harold Wm. Nohrden, against North Eastern Railroad Company. From verdict and judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. Error to charge that plaintiff could recover vindictive damages: 53 S. C., 448. Refusal to charge correct legal request error: 39 S. C, 108; 46 S. C., 203. Complaint must state beneficiaries deñnitely: Rev. Stat., 2316; 32 S. C, 142. City ordinance was not properly pleaded: 34 S. C, 541; 21 S. C., 323; 47 S. C., 484; 53 S. C., 575; 30 S. E. R., 152; 48 N. E. R., 446; 39 S. C., 514; 49 N.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Chief Justice McIver.
*4941 *493This action was commenced on the 27th of January, 1898, to recover damages sustained by the death of the intestate, caused, as alleged, by *494the negligence of the defendant company on the 8th day of September, 1897. The action is, therefore, brought under the provisions of the statute, commonly called Lord Campbell’s Act, now incorporated in the Revised Statutes of 1893 as sections 2315-2318. The provisions of sec. 2316, as amended by the act of 1893 — 21 Stat., 523 — are as follows: “Every such action shall be for the benefit…
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