Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-10-25
TUESDAY, OCTOBER rs, 1910.

gal battles ever held in a South Car
olina court room.
- Spartanburg, October Il: Inc
work of measuring the yield OF corn
made by the dynamite farmer j. h
Caldwell has been finished but this
man will not give the amount OF the
yield as he intends to enter In the
state contest and does not want the
citizens at large to know what ne mas
up his sleeve However, In discuss
ing the matter this morning, parties
who are in a position to know SAID
that il could be estimated from facts
already given out that he would make
about $50 pounds of corn in each row.
This was the average of the four rows
that were measured and weighed.
There are AZ rows and II the corn IN
1.-The four rows which was measured
IS a good average, he will make or
has made 6,144 pounds on the single
acre. At 10 pounds to the bushel
this would amount to 9S and small
fraction bushels which is remark
ably good yield for corn in this coun-
try The entire city and county as
well as the state and neighboring
states are interested in knowing the
outcome of the unique experiment
made by Mr.. Caldwell and the matter
Is being discussed by a great many
people in the city When seen TINS
morning by reporter, both Mr..
Nichols and Mr.. Wood the committee
who measured the corn, positively re-
fused to state the result Of their
measurements and weights because
Mr.. Caldwell had requested them not
to do so. So the information as given
above is indirect but II Is thought to
be almost accurate.
- Columbia, October 2l: The su-
preme court of South Carolina has TAX
en- judicial notice Of the conflict that
has been waged between plain-old-
horse drivers and automobilists since
the advent of the motor vehicles. The
notice comes in the shape Of decis-
| ion handed down in an Orangeburg
case. The supreme court especially
calls attention to the following stat
ute which is the law in this state as
| to the rights of persons on PUBIC
| highway: "A person operating mo-
| tor vehicle shall at the request or
upon signal by putting up the hand
| from a person riding or driving res
tive horse or horses bring such motor
| Immediately to a stop If necessary,
having due regard for the safety Oh
persons, vehicles and animals, ana II
| travelling i'm opposite directions re-
main stationary so long as may De
reasonable to allow such horses OF
animals to pass" There is a proVlso
| In the section also that II the morse
lis badly frightened the motor must
be stopped. In interpreting this sec
ton the court, opinion by Ira B Jones,
chief Justice, holds that 1t Is not al
ways necessary to stop an automobile
when an animal is frightened by 1t. In
Sustaining verdict of $1,000 for
damages on account of collision In
which a horse and buggy on one side
and an automobile on the other hgur-
ed the supreme court enunciates
some principles of law relative to the
public highways that will be OF great
interest to automobilists throughout
the state. Benjamin P. Cue and Dur.
ham S. Wilson, both Of the county OF
Orangeburg, were plaintin and deten-
dant, respectively In the case: Cue
claimed that on July 5, 1903, he was
travelling over Edisto river, In his
buggy when he met Durham coming
from the opposite direction in an au-
|tomobile. That the machine in which
Durham sat was remaining Still al
one end of the bridge until Cue ap-
preached, when the machine was
started and the noise frightened the
horse the plaintiff was driving. AS
result of this, that the horse ran
away, causing collision with the au-
tomobile, throwing the plaintiff out,
injuring him and breaking up the
buggy. The circuit court returned
verdict for Cue for $1,000. The su-
preme court affirms this verdict. The
most important statement made by
Chief Justice Jones with regard to
Automobiles Is as follows: I'VE are
not prepared to adopt as correct the
statement of the common law that
| the driver of an automobile must
stop If it can be discovered by ordi-
nary foresight that an animal has be-
come frightened, for there may be
| circumstances wherein upon discov-
cry the most prudent thing to do may
| be to get by with the automobile as
quickly as possible so as to remove
the cause of the accident. The true
rule Is that the driver must exercise
the care which ordinary prudence re-
uuires under the circumstances and
| this, as stated was the general ma
ture Of the charge (of the presiding
| Ijudge) which, as we construe II, does
not impose the absolute duty to stop
on discovery that horse Is frighten-
ed. but to stop If ordinary prudence
requires it,"