Legal Opinion
Free v. Southern Railway
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Decided July 17, 1909No. 7239Published
1Opinion of the Court
July 17, 1909. The opinion of the Court was delivered by This is the second appeal herein (78 S.C. 57, 58 S.E., 952).
The action is under the statute of North Carolina (commonly known as Lord Campbell's Act), on account of the death of plaintiff's intestate, who was in the employment of the defendant, and was killed by one of its switch engines in the yards at Charlotte, N.C., while crossing one of its tracks.
The allegations of the complaint, material to the questions of negligence, are as follows:
"That on the 20th day of September, 1904, Jules Free, plaintiff's intestate, was in the…
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