STILL v. HAMPTON AND BRANCHVILLE RAILROAD

19421

258 S.C. 416 (1972)

189 S.E.2d 15

Emmett C. STILL, Appellant, v. HAMPTON AND BRANCHVILLE RAILROAD and the South Carolina State Highway Department, Respondents.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

May 22, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. I.A. Smoak, Jr., of Walterboro, and Henry Hammer, of Columbia, for Appellant.

Messrs. Daniel R. McLeod, Atty. Gen., C. Tolbert Goolsby, and Edwin B. Brading, Asst. Attys. Gen., of Columbia, and Isadore Bogoslow, of Walterboro, for Respondent, South Carolina State Highway Department.

Messrs. Randolph Murdaugh, of Hampton, and James P. Harrelson, Gerald C. Smoak, of Walterboro, for Respondent Hampton and Branchville Railroad.


May 22, 1972.

BRAILSFORD, Justice.

Plaintiff sustained personal injuries and property damage on August 26, 1964, in a collision of his automobile with the thirty-second car of a forty-car train crossing South Carolina Highway No. 64 in Colleton County. Two days later, he commenced this action against the railroad company and the South Carolina Highway Department, alleging that the crossing was unusually dangerous...

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