McCoy v. State Highway Department

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Bonham.

August 3, 1931, an excursion party of colored people left Andrews, S. C, for a day’s outing at a resort on Cooper River near Charleston, S. C. They traveled in five school buses, engaged for the purpose. One of them was owned by Mr. Warren Newton, and was driven by his son, Olin Newton, a young man twenty years of age. Warren Newton went along with the party and rode on the front seat of the bus with the driver. The route from Andrews to Charleston is by Georgetown, where the traffic joins Highway No. 40 of the State highway system.…