Brown v. Laurens County

Citations

• 38 S.C. 282
• 17 S.E. 21
• 1893 S.C. LEXIS 59

Syllabus

<p>Non-Suit — Defect in Bridge — Proximate Cause. — While plaintiff was driving her horse and buggy on a bridge across a public stream, the horse shied at a piece of timber which had been put there for the purpose of repairing the bridge, and the buggy was backed over the side of the bridge at a point where there were no side railings, and plaintiff was thrown into the stream below and injured. The trial judge having granted a non-suit, this court declined to declare error in bis order; because, even if the absence of the railing could be called a defect in the repair of a bridge, it was not shown to have been the proximate cause of the accident.</p>