Dawson v. South Carolina Power Co.

This is an appeal from judgment for $10,000.00. actual damages and $10,000.00 punitive damages for wrongful death. Sections 411, 412, Code of 1942. The deceased, who was respondent’s wife and the mother of three adult chil dren, was leaving her home on the east side of Meeting Street Road, near the City of Charleston, to join friends who had parked their automobile about opposite her gate and across the road, when she was struck and killed by appellant’s passenger bus. She waved to them as she left her porch. They (two ladies) testified for appellant but they admitted that their view of the…