Ayers v. Atlantic Greyhound Corp.

Mr. Associate Justice Stukes

delivered the unanimous Opinion of the Court.

Respondent’s intestate went in a Pontiac sedan with his daughter, who drove, on November 24, 1944, from their farm home near Bowman, in Orangeburg County, to Win ston-Salem, North Carolina. Returning, about halfway between Columbia and Orangeburg, around nine o’clock at night, they crashed into the rear end of a parked passenger bus of the Atlantic Greyhound Corporation, with the tragic result of death to both occupants of the automobile. The action is under Lord Campbell’s Act, Secs. 411, 412, of the Code of 1942. The…