Reaves v. Western Union Telegraph Co.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Prince, J., Dillon, Spring term, 1917. Action by Joe Reaves and Annie Reaves. From judgment for plaintiffs, defendant appeals. cite: As to refusal of motion for directed, verdict as to punitive damages: State Constitution (1895), article IX, sec. 2; 19 S. C. 353; 90 S. C. 436; 36 S. C. 110; 17 S. C. 467; 70 S. C. 83; 57 U. R. A. 611; 37 Cyc. 1775. As to there being no sufficient evidence of wilfulness: 84 S. C. 482; 69 S. C. 545; 48 S. E. 622; 70 S. C. 83; 49 S. E.…
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Before Prince, J., Dillon, Spring term, 1917. Action by Joe Reaves and Annie Reaves. From judgment for plaintiffs, defendant appeals. cite: As to refusal of motion for directed, verdict as to punitive damages: State Constitution (1895), article IX, sec. 2; 19 S. C. 353; 90 S. C. 436; 36 S. C. 110; 17 S. C. 467; 70 S. C. 83; 57 U. R. A. 611; 37 Cyc. 1775. As to there being no sufficient evidence of wilfulness: 84 S. C. 482; 69 S. C. 545; 48 S. E. 622; 70 S. C. 83; 49 S. E. 12; 70 S. C. 418; 50 S. E. 6; 75 S. C. 97; 55 S. C. 129; 77 S. C. 404; 58 S. E. 10; 65 S. C. 99; 43 S. E. 448; 72 S. C.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Hydrick.
Plaintiffs sued to recover actual and punitive damages for defendant’s alleged negligence and reckless dereliction of duty in the matter of transmitting a sum of money from plaintiff, Joe Reaves, at Dillon, to his wife, at Edgefield. In July, 1915, Mrs. Reaves was called from her home in Dillon to the bedside of her sick brother at Edgefield. He died on Saturday, the 10th, at 1 p. m., and at 3 :25 p. m. she sent her husband the following telegram:
“Brother dead. Cannot get check cashed here. Mail . thirty-five dollars on six o’clock…
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