2013 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers
CHAPTER 17 - THE GENERAL RAILROAD LAW
SECTION 58-17-4070. Liability of common carriers interfering with contracts of shipment.
Any common carrier violating the provisions of Section 58-17-4060 shall be liable to such damages, including special and punitive damages, as may be found in an action maintained in the courts of this State. Any shipper or proposed consignee bringing suit for violation of the terms of Section 58-17-4060 may include in the same action actual damages sustained by him through such act of the common carrier as well as any special damages and may also recover in the same action such punitive damages as may be allowed to him.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1263; 1952 Code Section 58-1263; 1942 Code Section 8318; 1932 Code Section 8318; Civ. C. '22 Section 4865; Civ. C. '12 Section 3186; 1906 (25) 107.
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