Miller v. Parr Shoals Power Co.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Memminger, J., Lexington, February, 1915. Action by J. W. Miller against the Parr Shoals Power Company. From a judgment for the plaintiff, the defendant appeals. The' former cite: As to practice on cross-examination: 80 S. C. 220; 65 S. C. 247; 68 S. C. 470; 77 S. C. 50. Judicial discretion: 47 S. C. 488. Cross-examination: 7 Mete. 266; 91 S. C. 141; Wigmore, Ev., sec. 1367; 99 S. C. 63; 124 Pa.
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Before Memminger, J., Lexington, February, 1915. Action by J. W. Miller against the Parr Shoals Power Company. From a judgment for the plaintiff, the defendant appeals. The' former cite: As to practice on cross-examination: 80 S. C. 220; 65 S. C. 247; 68 S. C. 470; 77 S. C. 50. Judicial discretion: 47 S. C. 488. Cross-examination: 7 Mete. 266; 91 S. C. 141; Wigmore, Ev., sec. 1367; 99 S. C. 63; 124 Pa. St. 560; 68 Atl. 829; 162 Mass. 568; 41 N. E. 227; 194 Mass. 250; 131 N. C. 287; 33 Am. St. Rep. 682; 33 Fed. 415; 138 Fed. 536; 104 111. App. 507; 99 Am. Dec. 543; 21 Me. 484; 204'Mo. 21. . .…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Gage.
Tort for damage to lands from the backwaters of a branch of Broad River. Verdict for the plaintiff- for $900. Appeal by the defendant.
History: The plaintiff is a farmer and resides in Eexinton county upon a tract of land embracing 60 acres, and he has resided there 24 years. The land does not abut Broad River. It lies on a tributary of the river, and the waters of the-river are forced back_up that tributary and on the land. Below that land the defendant erected, in 1914, across Broad River, a dam, for the purpose of ponding water to…
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