Landrum v. State Highway Dept.

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Stabler.

The facts out of which these two cases arose, as shown by the record, may be briefly stated: An automobile, the property of the Landrum-Chiles Company, while being driven by Mrs. Elva G. Landrum, a resident of Greenville, on a paved State highway in Richland County, about thirteen miles from the City of Columbia, ran' off the road, and she was killed. The accident happened at a point where there was a slight curve in the highway, and where defendant’s em ployees had newly painted a center line on the pavement. These employees, all…