Edwards v. Southern Ry.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Townslnd, J., Fairfield, February term, 1901. Action by Derry P. Edwards, administrator of Jacob G. S. Edwards, against Southern Ry. Co. From judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals. cite: As to the construction of sec. ióp2 of Rev. Stat. and degrees of negligence: 30 S. C., 228; 1 N. & McC., 420; 4 McC., 220; 1 McC., 510; Endlich Sts., sec. 75, 357; 50 L. R- A., 722; 65 N. W., 870; 24 L. R. A., 223; 58 S. C., 228. As to the stop, look and listen rule: 19 Am. & Eng.
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Before Townslnd, J., Fairfield, February term, 1901. Action by Derry P. Edwards, administrator of Jacob G. S. Edwards, against Southern Ry. Co. From judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals. cite: As to the construction of sec. ióp2 of Rev. Stat. and degrees of negligence: 30 S. C., 228; 1 N. & McC., 420; 4 McC., 220; 1 McC., 510; Endlich Sts., sec. 75, 357; 50 L. R- A., 722; 65 N. W., 870; 24 L. R. A., 223; 58 S. C., 228. As to the stop, look and listen rule: 19 Am. & Eng. R. R. Cas., 3531 73 Pa., 504; 4 Ency., 1 ed., 946; 6 W. R., 851. Whether negligence is proved to be present, is…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice; Pope;.
Plaintiff’s intestate was killed on a crossing on defendant’s railroad on the night of the 10th day of March, 1900. The complaint is brought to recover $1,995 damages for defendant’s negligence at common law and also under the statute. The evidence offered by defendant tended to show that there was a strict compliance by the defendant’s agents and servants in giving the statutory signals from the 500 yards post continuously to the crossing of said railway company over the public highway where the deceased lost his life; that the…
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