Beach v. Savannah River Lumber Co.

In this case an administratrix sought to recover damages on account of the death' of her husband, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant. The action was brought under the statutes of South Carolina, the injury and death of the deceased having occurred in South Carolina, and the defendant being resident of Chatham county, Georgia. The plaintiff’s petition alleges, substantially, that on December 1, 1919, her husband was in the employ of the defendant as a foreman of a gang of men operating a pile-driver near the defendant’s mill in Jasper county, South Carolina; that it…