Gillman v. Florida Cent. & Pen. R. R.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Townsend, J., Lexington, February, 1898. Action by R. B. Gillman v. The Florida Central and Penninsular Railroad Company upon the following complaint (omitting the formal paragraph as to corporation, etc.): 2. That at Denmark, a station on the line of said railroad, now in Bamberg County, but then in Barnwell County, in the State aforesaid, at 3 o’clock on the morning of the 23d day of October, 1897, the plaintiff, on reaching the said station at Denmark, applied to…
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Before Townsend, J., Lexington, February, 1898. Action by R. B. Gillman v. The Florida Central and Penninsular Railroad Company upon the following complaint (omitting the formal paragraph as to corporation, etc.): 2. That at Denmark, a station on the line of said railroad, now in Bamberg County, but then in Barnwell County, in the State aforesaid, at 3 o’clock on the morning of the 23d day of October, 1897, the plaintiff, on reaching the said station at Denmark, applied to the station agent of the defendant for a ticket to Richmond,Va.; whereupon the said station agent informed the plaintiff…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Chief Justice McIver.
*2131 *212Inasmuch as the first question raised by this appeal is whether there was error in overruling the demurrer interposed, upon the ground that the *213facts stated in the complaint are not sufficient to constitute a cause of action, it will be necessary for the Reporter to set forth in his report a copy of so much of the complaint as states facts of the case, to wit: paragraphs two, three, four, five, six, and seven. If the facts there alleged be true— and they must be taken to be so — in considering the sufficiency of the demurrer,…
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