Murrell v. Charleston & W. C. Ry. Co.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Wilson, J., Aiken, November term, 1919. cite: Duty to passengers at stations: 1 Civ. Code 1912> sec. 3225; 65 S. C- 1; 67 S. C. 65. Conductor has right to assume that each passenger knows her destination and will make reasonable efforts to alight on arrival: 65 S. C. 33; 5 A. & E. Enc.
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Before Wilson, J., Aiken, November term, 1919. cite: Duty to passengers at stations: 1 Civ. Code 1912> sec. 3225; 65 S. C- 1; 67 S. C. 65. Conductor has right to assume that each passenger knows her destination and will make reasonable efforts to alight on arrival: 65 S. C. 33; 5 A. & E. Enc. Raw 571; 78 S. C. 70; 4 R. C. R. 538. Injury due to plaintiff’s negligence she cannot recover: 51 S. C. 296; 53 S. C. 203; 72 S. C. 336. To sustain action for abusive language, wrong must be found in the servant’s language, not in plaintiff’s opinion of it: 4 R. C. R. 601; Ann. Cas. 1914a, 20, and note;…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Watts.
“This is an action for damages by the plaintiff, Mrs. J. R. Murrell, against the defendant, Charleston and Western Carolina Railway Company, for having been carried by the-town of McCormick and failing to make connection witji the train at that point, which passed through the town of Mt. Carmel, on the Anderson Branch of the said railway, on the 28th day of August, 1917. The case was tried by his Honor, John S. Wilson, at the November term of the Court of Common Pleas, ,1919. The jury returned a verdict for actual damages in the sum…
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