Hasting v. Southern Ry. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of South Carolina, at Greenville.
1Opinion of the Court
PURNELL, District Judge.
Paul Hasting, an infant, son of the plaintiff, eight years old, was killed at Welford, S. C., a station on the line of the defendant’s road, by being thrown from the platform of a shanty or caboose car and run over in the yard of the defendant while the defendant was engaged in shifting and coupling cars.
The complaint alleges that the deceased was going from his home to an orchard of his father’s, and in order to dp so it was necessary for him to cross the track of the defendant where the public highway or street intersects the same. When he arrived at this point he…
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- Cleveland, C., C. & St. L. Ry. Co. v. TarttCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1894
- Manly v. Wilmington & Weldon RailroadSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1876
- St. Louis & S. F. Ry. Co. v. BennettCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1895
- Kansas City, Ft. S. & M. R. Co. v. CookCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1895
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