Harley v. Railroad Co.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Norton, J., Colleton, October, 1888. This was an action by T. W. Harley against the Butawville Railroad Company to recover damages for a cow killed by defendant’s running train, at a time when, and a place where, the general stock law was of force. The evidence showed that the railroad company owned the land on which its track was laid at that point, eind that plaintiff’s land was not adjacent.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mr. Chief Justice Simpson.
The action below was ah action by respondent against the defendant to recover damages for certain stock alleged to have been negligently killed by defendant company, to wit: a cow alleged to have been run over by the locomotive of defendant and killed. The verdict was for the plaintiff, and the defendant has appealed upon several exceptions which will be found in the uCase.’’ Only one of these exceptions, however, has been pressed here, and that is as follows: The .defendant requested his honor to charge: “That where the stock…
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