Littlejohn v. Richmond & Danville R. R.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Townsend, J., Spartanburg, February, 1896. Action by J. R. Littlejohn against the Richmond and Danville Railroad Company for damages for injuries sustained while attempting to cross a public street in town of Gaffney City by climbing between two freight cars of a train of cars standing across the street. Judgment for plaintiff. .Defendant appeals. cites: Duty of railroad of signalling before moving cars: 38 S. C., 136; 39 S. C., 514: 57 Fed.
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Before Townsend, J., Spartanburg, February, 1896. Action by J. R. Littlejohn against the Richmond and Danville Railroad Company for damages for injuries sustained while attempting to cross a public street in town of Gaffney City by climbing between two freight cars of a train of cars standing across the street. Judgment for plaintiff. .Defendant appeals. cites: Duty of railroad of signalling before moving cars: 38 S. C., 136; 39 S. C., 514: 57 Fed. R., 551: 34 S. C., 451, 292; 41 S. C.. 1: 112 Mo., 238; 24 Am. St. Rep., 397; 11 S. E. R., 445. Person climbing on a standing. train lawfully…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Gary.
The complaint herein (omitting the formal allegations as to the incorporation of the defendant) is as follows: “IV. That on or about August 19th, 1891, the defendant corporation negligently and unlawfully allowed one of its trains, made up of a locomotive and a . number of freight cars, in charge of one of its authorized agents, to stop, for a considerable time, across one of the *14public streets of the town of Gaffney City, in said county and State (through which town said road runs), all of which was against the ordinances of said…
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