Bodie v. Charleston & Western Carolina Ry. Co.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Benrt, J., Greenwood, November term, 1900. Action for damages foe personal injuries by Josiah W. Bodie against Charleston and Western Carolina Railway Co. From judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. cites: As to assumption of risks by plaintiff: 5 Am.
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Before Benrt, J., Greenwood, November term, 1900. Action for damages foe personal injuries by Josiah W. Bodie against Charleston and Western Carolina Railway Co. From judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. cites: As to assumption of risks by plaintiff: 5 Am. St. R., 245; 55 la., 527. As to proximate cause: 52 S. C., 336; 57 S. C., 433; 54 S. C., 498; 1 Strob., 525. Instruction that if plaintiff did the zvork in the usual, customary manner, he could not be charged with negligence, was error: 60 S. C., 168; 25 S. C., 34; 58 S. C., 230. The instructions as to contributive negligence were…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Jones.
This appeal comes from a verdict and judgment in favor of plaintiff, in an action for damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained through defendant’s negligence in failing to furnish an adequate force of laborers to do the work required of plaintiff as section track foreman, in the hauling and piling of steel rails, after application for additional help by the plaintiff and promise by defendant to supply the same. The sixth paragraph of the complaint alleged: “VI. That on the 15th day of February, 1900, while the…
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