Brogdon v. Northwestern Railroad Co. of S.C.

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Beease.

This was an action for actual and punitive damages, tried in the Court of Common Pleas for Sumter County before Hon. E. C. Dennis, presiding Judge, and a jury.

The plaintiff’s complaint, in addition to formal matters, alleged the killing of one Jemima Walker, a colored woman, in a collision of a train of the defendant and a Ford automobile, at what is known as the “Liberty street road” crossing in Sumter County, just without the limits of the City of Sumter. Negligence on the part of the defendant was alleged in failure to give the…