Watkins v. Atlantic Coast Line R. R.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Rice, J., Action by Oscar Watkins against Atlantic Coast Riñe Railroad Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
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Before Rice, J., Action by Oscar Watkins against Atlantic Coast Riñe Railroad Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. Declarations of alleged agent inadmissible: 39 S. C. 444, 535; 72 S. C. 251; 46 S. C. 81; 57 S. C. 142; 49 S. C. 356. Judgment of another State: 63 S. C. 542. Punitive damages: 147 U. S. "101; 37 R. ed. 97. Testimony received without objection: 51 S. C. 282; 53 S. C. 360; 67 S. C. 180. Record of conviction in criminal Courts of another State irrelevant: 3 Strob. 546; 93 S. C. 292. Punitive damages: 37 R. ed. (U. S'.) 97; 71 S. C. 444; 88 S. C. 421; 89 S. C.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was- delivered by
Mr. Justice Watts.
This was an action for actual and punitive damages for an alleged unlawful ejection from a train by the defendant of the plaintiff, a passenger, and was tried at Marion, S. C., 'at the April term of Court, 1913, before Judge Rice and a jury. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of one thousand dollars. Before the case was submitted to the jury, and when all the evidence was in, the defendant moved the Court to direct a verdict in its favor as to punitive damages, on the ground that there was no’ evidence to support…
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