Morrow v. Evans

Stukes, Justice.

In this action for $50,000.00 damages for wrongful death the verdict was for the plaintiff, now respondent, for $5,000- .00 actual damages and $15,000.00 punitive damages, which the trial judge refused to set aside or reduce on motion for judgment non obstante veredicto or, in the alternative, for new trial.

The deceased was a young Air Force Sergeant, stationed at Shaw Field, which is near Sumter. About five o’clock A. M. in the pre-dawn darkness of February 11, 1950, he was traveling alone in.a Studebaker passenger automobile South on U. S. Highway 521 about seven miles North…