Legal Opinion
Collum v. Southern Ry. Company
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Decided February 13, 1939No. 14820PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Chief Justice Stabler.
The plaintiff in this case recovered actual and punitive damages in the sum of $1,400.00, and from the judgment entered on the verdict this appeal was taken.
The complaint alleged, among other things, that for some sixty years, and prior to' the construction of defendant’s railroad, a public road in Aiken County, in which the public had acquired a prescriptive right to> travel, existed and extended from what is now State Highway No. 215 to Berlin Station, and therefrom in an easterly direction to the old Wagener-Columbia road;…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Lower Main St. Bk. v. Caledonian Ins. Co.Supreme Court of South Carolina · 1926
- Kizer v. Woodmen of the WorldSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1935
- Tinsley v. Western Union Tel. Co.Supreme Court of South Carolina · 1905
- Broadfoot v. Atlantic Coast Line Railway Co.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1917
- Spears v. Atlantic Coast Line R. R.Supreme Court of South Carolina · 1912
3Cited by5 opinions
- Cameron v. CameronSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1952
- Prosser v. Seaboard Air Line R. Co.Supreme Court of South Carolina · 1949
- A. D. B. Realty Corp. v. Orient InsuranceSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1960
- Seigler v. Yeargin Construction Co.Court of Appeals of South Carolina · 1986
- ABD REALTY CORP. v. Orient Ins. Co.Supreme Court of South Carolina · 1960