Hutto v. Seaboard Air Line Ry.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Klugh, J., Orangeburg, October, 1907. Action by J. D. Hutto against Seaboard Air Line Railway. Prom judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. cite: Plaintiff having no permission to use house cannot recover under statute: 77 S. C., 467. No evidence of negligence in running the train: 34 S. C., 444; 7 S. C., 403; 58 S. C., 491; 103 Pa., 435; 30 N. J. L., 188; 19 L. R. A., 563; 34 At., 341; 3 L R. A., 778. Bmitting sparks is not an element of negligence: 34 S. C., 366;…
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Before Klugh, J., Orangeburg, October, 1907. Action by J. D. Hutto against Seaboard Air Line Railway. Prom judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. cite: Plaintiff having no permission to use house cannot recover under statute: 77 S. C., 467. No evidence of negligence in running the train: 34 S. C., 444; 7 S. C., 403; 58 S. C., 491; 103 Pa., 435; 30 N. J. L., 188; 19 L. R. A., 563; 34 At., 341; 3 L R. A., 778. Bmitting sparks is not an element of negligence: 34 S. C., 366; 38 S. C., 103; 49 L. R. A., 645; 15 Wall, 534. Messrs. Raysor & Summers cite: Liability under the statute attaches…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Jones.
In this action plaintiff recovered judgment against defendant for $507.15 as damages for destruction of a lot of cotton seed by fire communicated thereto by one of defendant’s locomotive engines.
1 The first contention presented by defendant’s exceptions to this judgment is whether the Court erred in holding that the complaint was under the common law and not under the statute, sec. 3135 Code of Laws.
The complaint after alleging the incorporation of the defendant, that it operated the railroad at the time of the fire, and that…
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