Jeffords v. Florence County

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Bonham.

This case bristles with sharp’ contradictions. The action is brought to recover damages for injuries to his person and damages to his property, which plaintiff alleges he suffered under the following circumstances : It appears from the complaint that the authorities of Florence undertook, in the summer of 1930, the work of widening a portion of the highway in that county leading' from the Timmonsville-Darlington highway to Ebenezer; that in this work the county authorities constructed a ditch which ran halfway- across the- road; that…