Bunton v. South Carolina State Highway Department

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. ChiEE Justice StabeEr.

These two cases, the issues involved being identical, were tried together in the Court below, and so argued on appeal here. In both actions the plaintiffs sought to recover damages for injuries sustained as a result of an automobile accident which occurred on June 11, 1935, some four miles southwest of Charleston on State Highway No. 17 leading to Savannah. Originally, the concrete part of this road was 18 feet in width; but it had been widened, for several miles from Charleston to the point of the accident, by the addition of…