Dean v. Charleston & Western Carolina Railway Co.

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Acting Associate Justice J. W. Johnson.

These two actions were separately instituted by plaintiffs against defendants to recover actual and punitive damages on account of alleged negligent, willful, and wanton ejectment of plaintiffs from one of defendant’s trains.

The cases were tried by consent together before Judge Sease and a jury, at the June, 1924, term of Court, for Spartanburg County, and resulted in a verdict in each case in favor of the plaintiff, for $125 actual damages, and $450 punitive damages.

The facts, out of which these controversies…