McCarley v. Glenn-Lowry Mfg. Co.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Mfmming^r, J., Newberry, December, 1905. Action by Louise A. McCarley, administratrix, against Glenn-Lowry Mfg. Co. Prom judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. Messrs. Johnstone & Cromer and Mower & Bynum, for appellant, cite: Cross-examination as to size of rope necessary does not come within rules of expert evidence: 59 S. C., 311; 8 Ency. P. & P., 770. Master is not required to warn servant of known danger: 55 S. C., 483; 4 Cur.
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Before Mfmming^r, J., Newberry, December, 1905. Action by Louise A. McCarley, administratrix, against Glenn-Lowry Mfg. Co. Prom judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. Messrs. Johnstone & Cromer and Mower & Bynum, for appellant, cite: Cross-examination as to size of rope necessary does not come within rules of expert evidence: 59 S. C., 311; 8 Ency. P. & P., 770. Master is not required to warn servant of known danger: 55 S. C., 483; 4 Cur. L., 556, 557; Wood’s L. & M. & S., 2d, 697, 713, 758. 761; 55 S. C., 100; 72 S. C., 97; 135 U. S., 570; 152 U. S., 155. Servant assumes risk in…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Chief Justice Pope.
Matthew W. McCarley was employed by the defendant, the Glenn-Lowry Manufacturing Co., to superintend its ginnery of cotton. On the 7th day of October, 1904, the said McCarley was wounded while in the employ of the defendant in its said ginnery and on the 14th day of said month and year he died.
The complaint sets forth that he left surviving him as his heirs at law and next of kin, his widow, Louise A. McCarley, and her three children, Herman, John and Moselle. Letters of administration on his estate were granted by the probate…
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