Petrie v. Columbia & Greenville R. R.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

MR. Justice MoIver.

This action was brought by the plaintiff, as administrator of Margaret W. Petrie, to recover damages in behalf of her children, for injury sustained by them by reason of her death, which was alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant company. The testimony on the part of the plaintiff tended to show that the deceased was quite an old widowed lady, residing with her son-in-law, very near the track of the railroad company, and that she was killed by a passenger train while attempting to cross the railroad track near…