Connelly v. Southern Railway Co.

G. Badger Baker, Acting Associate Justice.

This action, which resulted in a verdict for actual damages, was brought for damages to a tractor and trailer, operated by respondent’s employee, Robert V. Kime, which was in collision with a freight train of appellant at a grade crossing on Assembly Street in the City of Columbia, on March 8, 1965, at about 7:00 o’clock A. M. Appropriate motions were made during the trial in preservation and presentation of appellant’s single exception which is, in brief and question form, whether Kime, respondent’s agent or servant, was guilty of gross contributory…