39 S.C. 514 | S.C. | 1893
The opinion of the court was delivered by
This was an action to recover
The plaintiff’s testimony tended to show that he was traveling along the public highway, intending to cross the railroad track, at the crossing near which the disaster occurred, in a buggy drawn by a mule; but before he reached the crossing, and before he had got upon defendant’s roadbed, he stopped, to speak to a friend, at a point some fifteen or twenty feet from the railroad track, and while there, seeing the train approaching, at a distance of some fifty yards or more, he attempted to
The judgment of this court is, that the judgment of the Circuit Court be reversed, and that the case be remanded to that court for a new trial.