Case ID: sc_95/html/0437-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice Watts.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

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    OWENS v. CHARLESTON & WESTERN CAROLINA RY. CO.
    Appeal — Railroads.—There being evidence in the magistrate court to support the findings that a carrier unlawfully withheld from consignee a shipment and charged thereon unlawful storage, which findings were concurred in by the Circuit Court, the judgment below will not be disturbed.
    Before Spain, J., Barnwell, March, 1913.
    Affirmed.
    Action by Bessie Owens, by guardian, against Charleston and Western Carolina Railway Company. Defendant appeals-.
    
      
      Messrs. Harley & Best, for appellant.
    
      Messrs. R. P. Searson, Jr., and Jas. M. Patterson,
    
    contra, cite: As to punitive damages: 61 S. C. 189; 65 S. C. 336; 88 S. C. 14.
    September 18, 1913.
   The opinion oí the Court .was delivered by

Mr. Justice Watts.

This was an action for damages for wilfully and unlawfully withholding from the plaintiff a shipment of goods made by her over defendant railroad, and for unlawful storage charges on the same. The case was tried before a magistrate, who gave judgment for the plaintiff, upon appeal to the Circuit Court, the Circuit Judge, his Honor, Judge Spain, dismissed the appeal and affirmed the judgment of the magistrate’s court. Defendant appeals to» this Court and questions correctness of this ruling, and asks reversal of the same. It is sufficient to say there was some testimony to support the findings of fact of the magistrate concurred in by the Circuit Court. This Court has repeatedly decided: “If there .is evidence to support a finding in the magistrate’s court, concurred in by the Circuit Court, such finding will not be disturbed on appeal.” Lewis v. Railroad, 78 S. C. 35, 58 S. E. 989; State v. Powell, 91 S. C. 4, 73 S. E. 1017; Mathews v. Lumber Co., 91 S. C. 571, 75 S. E. 170.

Judgment affirmed.