48 S.C. 364 | S.C. | 1897
The opinion of the Court was delivered b5^
This is an appeal from a judgment entered on a verdict, obtained by plaintiff against defendant, in an action to recover damages for injuries sustained by the plaintiff, occasioned, as is alleged, by the negligence of defendant, while plaintiff was in the employment of defendant as an engineer running one of the defendant’s locomotives. The exceptions, for the purposes of this appeal, other than the first, are based upon alleged errors of omission and commission in the charge of the Circuit Judge, and, therefore, for a full understanding of the questions presented, it will be necessary that the requests to charge, together with the charge in full, as set out in the “Case,” as well as the exceptions upon which the appeal is taken, should all be incorporated in the report of this case.
The fourth exception must likewise be overruled for the same reason. The Judge had already charged the jury as to the difference in the degree of care required in case of a
The fifth, sixth, and seventh exceptions cannot be sustained, for the reason that the propositions of law upon which the requests therein referred to are based were sufficiently covered by the charge of the Circuit Judge, and there was no error on his part in refusing to repeat those propositions in the language which appellant saw fit to present those requests.
The judgment of this Court is, that the judgment of the Circuit Court be affirmed.