Lawter v. War Emergency Co-Operative Ass'n

Oxner, J.:

This case, along with a companion case, has heretofore been before this Court on the pleadings. Massey et al. v. War Emergency Cooperative Association et al., 209 S. C. 292, 39 S. E. (2d) 907.

The action was brought to recover damages for the alleged wrongful death of J. T. Lawter who died almost instantly as a result of injuries received in a collision between a truck driven by him, to which was attached a trailer loaded with 35 bales of cotton, and a truck and tanker, loaded'with 4,200 gallons of aviation gasoline, belonging to the War Emergency Cooperative Association. This…