Jowers v. Dupriest

Moss, Chief Justice.

These two actions, arising out of the same automobile accident, were tried together by consent of the parties and resulted in verdicts for actual damages in favor of T. J. Jowers, Jr., and actual and punitive damages in favor of Samuel M. Hair, the respondents herein, against Earl R. Dupriest, Jr., the appellant herein. ' ■

The accident occurred at about 3:00 o’clock P. M. on January 15, 1964, on Highway No. 215, approximately four miles north of the City of Aiken, in Aiken County, South Carolina, when a Chevrolet truck owned by Jowers and driven by Hair was in collision…