Supreme Court of South Carolina, 1912

Stallings v. Southern Ry.

Stallings v. Southern Ry.
Supreme Court of South Carolina · Decided August 15, 1912 · Watts, Woods
75 S.E. 449; 92 S.C. 290; 1912 S.C. LEXIS 136 (South Eastern Reporter)

Stallings v. Southern Ry.

Opinion of the Court

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Woods.

The plaintiff recovered a judgment in a magistrate’s court for seventy-five cents overcharge of freight on washstands shipped from Savannah, Georgia, to Spartanburg, South Carolina, and fifty dollars, the penalty for such overcharge. On appeal the judgment was affirmed by the Circuit Court. The plaintiff admitted in his testimony that he paid the freight without objection. This admission was fatal for since the case was heard in the Circuit Court it has been decided in Hardaway v. Southern Ry. Co., 90 S. C. 475, that there can be no recovery for such overchange voluntarily paid. This conclusion renders unnecessary the other questions made by the appeal.

Reversed.

Mr. Justice Watts disqualified.

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