Tucker v. Charleston & Western Railway Co.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Aldrich, J., Laurens, October, 1897. Action by Alex. Tucker against Charleston and Western Carolina Railway. Judgment for plaintiff for $1,500. Defendant appeals. cite: As to appliances: 18 S. C., 262; Crouch v. R. R., 22 S. C. ^ 8 i | O có >4^ w o ' 3 § rH r O K> CO Oi p co £ § o . TO co CO o CM Ox £ F p
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Gary.
In this action the plaintiff, who was an employee of the defendant on one of its lever or push cars, recovered judgment against the defendant for damages sustained through a defect in said lever or push car, in the sum of $1,500.
1 The defendant appealed upon several exceptions, the first of which complains of error on the part of the presiding Judge as follows: 1. “In charging and instructing the jury, in substance, that if the lever car in this case were unsafe or defective or insecure, then it would be a car which railroad men of…
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