Fickling v. Southern Ry. Co.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Gage, J., Barnwell, November, 1913, and Hampton, October, 1913. The first two above mentioned actions were brought in a magistrate’s Court in Barnwell county to recover damages for the loss of goods in shipments from Augusta, Ga., to Blackville, S. C., and penalty for failure to adjust and pay claim within forty days.
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Before Gage, J., Barnwell, November, 1913, and Hampton, October, 1913. The first two above mentioned actions were brought in a magistrate’s Court in Barnwell county to recover damages for the loss of goods in shipments from Augusta, Ga., to Blackville, S. C., and penalty for failure to adjust and pay claim within forty days. The third action was brought in a magistrate’s Court in Hampton county to recover damages to-goods-occasioned by injury while being shipped from Burnt Prairie, Illinois, to Brunson, S. C., and penalty for failure to adjust and pay claim therefor within forty days. From…
1Opinion of the Court 1
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Hydrick.
The decision in each of the above entitled cases is governed by the decision of this Court in Varnville Furniture Co. v. Ry., 98 S. C. 63, 79 S. E. 700.
Judgment affirmed.
Mr. Justice Gage having heard these cases on Circuit did not participate in this decision.
Note.—The decision in Varnville Furniture Co. v. C. & W. C. Ry. Co., 98 S. C. 63, 79 S. E. 700, was overruled by the United States Supreme Court on writ of error, on June 1st, 1915, see 35 Sup. Ct. Rep. 715, and thereupon the Supreme Court made an order modifying the foregoing…
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