Seaboard Air Line Railway v. Koennecke
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. The facts, which involve the construction of the Employers’ Liability Act and the validity of a verdict of the state court in a suit for death of an employé, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holmes
This is an action brought by the defendant in error for causing the death of her intestate, J. T. Koennecke. The latter was run over by a train of the plaintiff in error (the defendant,) while acting as switchman in the defendant’s yard at Cayce, South Carolina. The declaration alleged reckless negligence, and set out that the wife and four children named were the only heirs and distributees of the deceased, that they were dependent upon him for support, and that they had suffered damage to the amount of $75,000. There was a statute in South Carolina similar to Lord Campbell’s Act and…
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