Legal Opinion
Smith v. Atlantic Coast Line R. Co.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Decided August 25, 1919No. 10264PublishedCited by 1 opinion
Before Moore, J., Sumter, Pall term, 1918. Action by W. P. Smith against the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. Mr. Reynolds cites: As to ownership of goods in question: 2 Am. & Png. Pncy. Law 810; 6 Cyc., p. 426. Real party in interest must sue: Code of Civil Procedure, secs. 160-162; 75 S. C., p.. 311.
1Opinion of the Court
August 25, 1919. The opinion of the Court was delivered by The record contains this statement:
"This action was commenced in the magistrate's Court August 30, 1918, to recover one hundred dollars ($100.00), and costs, to wit, fifty-six dollars, the alleged value of the carload of wood and forty-four dollars penalty, six dollars of the penalty being expressly waived. The car was alleged to have been shipped on or about the 26th January, 1918, from Swimming Pens Siding, to the plaintiff, at Sumter, S.C. within a reasonable time after the said shipwood was lost through the negligence of the…
2Cited by1 opinion
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