Court Opinion

ID: 9868284
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Date Created: 2023-09-26 18:27:22.707867+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:45:48.904986
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Order
Upon consideration of the Petition for Rehearing of the above appeal, It is ordered that:
The second, third and fourth paragraphs on page 13 of the report of the opinion in Westbrook’s Opinions, June 15, 1946, the same being the fifth, sixth and seventh paragraphs of the original opinion, are stricken out and the following substituted therefor:
*519July 10, 1946.
It was expressly made upon the grounds formerly stated for appellant’s prior motions for nonsuit and directed'verdict, and the grounds of the latter included, in effect, the single ground of the former. The following is quoted from the transcript of record for appeal.
“Mr. Moss: Your Honor, at this time we wish to make a motion for a directed verdict in favor of the defendant the Southern Railway Company notwithstanding the verdict found by the jury, and we wish to make our motion for this directed verdict upon the grounds stated in our motion for a directed verdict stated at the close of the testimony. Your Honor, this motion is also made on the same grounds as the grounds stated in our motion for a nonsuit.
“The Court: I think I will have to overrule the motion for the reasons I gave in overruling your other motion for a directed verdict.”
Much of appellant’s able argument is bottomed upon the premise that the jury’s favorable verdict for the engineer-defendant absolved the appellant from liability for the alleged negligent and reckless acts and omissions of it which, it is contended, were most, if not all, the acts of the engineer, and the latter was found innocent by the jury. Carter v. A. C. L. R. Co., 194 S. C., 494, 10 S. E. (2d), 17. But appellant is plainly not in position to claim any advantage from the verdict of acquittal of the engineer for it made no point of it in the trial court. The record is entirely clear thereabout.
Upon such alteration of the opinion, the Petition is dismissed and rehearing denied.
Mr. Chiee Justice Baker and Messrs. Associate Justices Fistiburne, Stukes, Tayeor and Oxner concur.