Whetstone v. South Carolina Department of Highways & Public Transportation

Rhodes, Justice:

This appeal is from an order denying the motion of appellant South Carolina Department of Highways and Public Transportation (hereafter the Department) for a dismissal or, in the alternative, for a change of venue of the present actions.

Consolidated in this appeal are three lawsuits which arose from a collision in Orangeburg County between a highway department motor grader and an automobile driven by Bell Lewis and having as its passengers Ann Bell Benjamin and John Henry Benjamin, the latter now deceased. The plaintiffs *326are seeking damages from the Department and Bell Lewis…