Morris, Adm'r. v. Langley Mills

The opinion of the Court was delivered' by

Mr. Justice Marion.

The action is for damages on account of alleged wrongful death of plaintiff’s intestate, a young girl 5 years and 9 months of age, who was drowned by falling from a causeway on a public highway of the defendant, Aiken County, into a pond alongside the highway on the premises of the defendant, .Langley Mills. At the place of the accident the highway consists of a causeway constructed over and across the water, some 5 or 6 feet deep on both sides of the causeway, of an artificial pond, maintained as a fishpond and for purposes of…