Evans v. Charleston & Western Carolina Railroad

Lizzie Evans brought her suit for damages against the Charleston & Western Carolina Railway Company, in Columbia superior court. Briefly stated the case made by her petition is substantially as follows: The railway line of the defendant company runs through petitioner’s farm in front of her house, cutting her off from an outlet to the public highway except by crossing the defendant’s railroad. A private way runs from her house and home to the public highway across defendant’s line of railroad. There are ditches three or four feet deep on both sides of the track where the private way crosses…