Gardner v. City of Columbia Police Department

216 S.C. 219 (1950)

57 S.E.2d 308

GARDNER

v.

CITY OF COLUMBIA POLICE DEPARTMENT ET AL.

16307

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

January 11, 1950.

Messrs. John M. Daniel, Attorney General, T.C. Callison, R. Hoke Robinson, and James S. Verner, Assistant Attorneys General, all of Columbia, for appellant.

Mr. Henry H. Edens, of Columbia, for respondent.

January 11, 1950.

FISHBURNE, Justice.

The respondent, Isaac F. Gardner, while employed as a policeman by the City of Columbia, and in the discharge of his duties, was on June 4, 1946 injured by the negligent operation of a truck owned and operated by the…