2013 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers
CHAPTER 13 - CARRIERS GENERALLY
SECTION 58-13-250. Liability of connecting carriers; recovery from carriers actually responsible.
For any damages for injury or damage to, or loss or delay of, any freight, baggage or other property sustained anywhere in such through transportation over connecting lines, or any of them, as defined in Section 58-13-240, any of such connecting carriers which the person sustaining such damages may first elect to sue in this State therefor shall be held liable to such person and such carrier so held liable to such person shall be entitled in a proper action to recover the amount of any loss, damage or injury it may be required to pay such person from the carrier through whose negligence the loss, damage or injury was sustained, together with costs of suit.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-575; 1952 Code Section 58-575; 1942 Code Section 7169; 1932 Code Section 7169; Civ. C. '22 Section 3891; Civ. C. '12 Section 2575; 1903 (24) 2.
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