Shepherd v. Southern Railway Co.

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Acting Associate Justice R. O. Purdy.

The respondent, desiring to have a sick child treated by a physician who lived at Greer, which is a station between Greenville and Spartanburg, on September 15, 1923, purchased a ticket for Greer from the appellant’s agent at Greenville. The respondent at the time had the child in his arms. He boarded the appellant’s train, No. 34, which was a through train and carried him beyond Greer to Spartanburg. No. 12, a local train which stopped at Greer, was in the yard at Greenville at the same time.

This action was…