Griffing v. Atlas Van Lines, Inc.

WYCHE, District Judge.

The above action, instituted in the State Court and removed here upon the ground of diversity of citizenship, was brought by the plaintiff to recover damages against the above named defendants for their separate, independent and joint acts of negligence and gross negligence in causing a collision between plaintiff’s automobile and a tractor-trailer which, in the nighttime, was stopped on the paved and traveled portion of United States Highway No. 17, near the town of Walterboro, South Carolina.

*11The case was tried before me without a jury, and in compliance with Rule 52…