Brown v. Nix

Mr. Associate Justice Stukes

delivered the unanimous Opinion of the Court.

Respondent was a bystander when appellant got into trouble with his loaded truck on an ice-covered highway in the village of Glendale, in Spartanburg County, on Christmas day, 1943. It became necessary to manually move a stalled and abandoned vehicle in the path of appellant’s truck and respondent answered the need for help and was in the act of assisting when appellant shut a door of the moving vehicle on the fingers of respondent’s right hand. That caused a painful and, as it turned out, serious injury which required…