Harrill v. . R. R.

This action was brought by the plaintiff to recover damages of the defendant, a domestic corporation of North Carolina, on account of the death of his intestate, Jake Metcalf, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant. The intestate was a resident of South Carolina and was killed in that State while engaged in trying to drive an engine and cars over the railroad bridge and trestle at Buffalo Creek. The bridge and trestle were on the line of the railroad of the South Carolina and Georgia Extension Railway Company of South Carolina, a domestic corporation of that State. The…