Free v. Southern Ry.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Watts, J., Spartanburg, December, 1907. Action by John Free, as administrator of Jules Free, against Southern Railway.
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Before Watts, J., Spartanburg, December, 1907. Action by John Free, as administrator of Jules Free, against Southern Railway. From judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals. cite: Would Courts of North Carolina hold in this case there was only one inference: 130 N. C., 344; 105 N. C., 140; 113 N. C., 550; 111 N. C., 236; 126 N. C., 634; 133 N. C., 610; 118 N. C., 1010; 117 N. C., 616; 137 N. C., 349; 136 N. C., 3; 122 N. C., 987; 27 S. E. R., 27; 29 S. E. R., 953; 30 S. E. R.; 127; 39 S. E. R., 808; 41 S. E. R., 941; 52 S. E. R., 307, 932; 53 S. E. R., 513; 55 S. E. R., 103; 61 S. E. R., 621;…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Gary.
This is the second appeal herein (78 S. C., 57, 58 S. E., 952).
The action is under the statute of North Carolina (commonly known as Lord Campbell’s Act), on account of the death bf plaintiff’s intestate, who was in the employment of the defendant, and was killed by one of its switch engines in the yards at Charlotte, N. C., while crossing one of its tracks.
The allegations of the complaint, material to the questions of negligence, are as follows:
-“That on the 20th day of September, 1904, Jules Free, plaintiff’s intestate, was in the…
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