Murphy v. Southern Ry.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Action by J. H. Murphy against Southern Ry. Co. From judgment of Circuit Court affirming judgment of Magistrate W. Russell Wright, defendant appeals. Mr. Abney cites: 50 S. C., 140; State v. Holleyman, 55 S. C.; 67 S. C., 493; 73 S. C., 116; 170 U. S-, 172; 45 S. E., 492; 57 Fed., 573; 72 S. C., 44; 49 N. Y., 223; 57 N. Y., 677; 39 Wis., 449; 57 Mo. App., 181 cites: 37 S. C., 605; 30 S. C., 612.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Jones.
The plaintiff recovered judgment against defendant in a magistrate court for thirty-two 50-100 dollars, the value of certain personal property destroyed by fire while in defendant’s warehouse at Bamberg, S. C., which was burned October 13, 1905, and in addition plaintiff recovered fifty dollars statutory penalty for failing to pay plaintiff’s claim within forty days from time of filing.On áppeal his Honor, Judge R. C. Watts, affirmed the judgment, announcing that he could not hear the evidence taken before magistrate as, in his…
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