Magill v. Seaboard Air Line Ry.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Gage, J., Abbeville, Action by Benjamin L. Magill against Seabord Air Line Railway. From judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. Mr. Green cites: Objectionable to passengers: 57 S. E. R., 744; 2 P. E. R. A. (N. S.), 472; 56 S. E., 70; 26 Am.
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Before Gage, J., Abbeville, Action by Benjamin L. Magill against Seabord Air Line Railway. From judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. Mr. Green cites: Objectionable to passengers: 57 S. E. R., 744; 2 P. E. R. A. (N. S.), 472; 56 S. E., 70; 26 Am. R., 68. Punitive damages: 2 L. R. A. (N. S.), 472. Mr. Glenn cites: If conductor exercise duty of vigilance with discretion carrier is not liable: 56 S. E., 68; 57 S. E-, 943 ; 93 Mass., 304. Punitive damages: 45 S. E., 1000; 12 S. E., 1061. Distinction between actual and punitive damages in charge not clear: 48 S. E., 232; 37 S. E., 161; 22 S.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Chiee Justice Jones.
This action was brought to recover actual and punitive damages for an alleged unlawfull ejection of plaintiff from defendant’s passenger train at Athens, Georgia, and resulted in a judgment for two thousand dollars in favor of plaintiff.
The evidence tended to show that on September 3, 1906, plaintiff purchased a ticket from Abbeville, S. C., to Atlanta, Georgia, and return as passenger on defendant’s excursion train between these points. Upon the return trip on night of the 4th there was much disorder on the train and the…
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