Stubbs v. Ratliff

The Opinion of the Court was delivered by

Circuit Judge E. D. Eide, Acting Associate Justice:

W. E. Stubbs, Sr., was a resident of Chesterfield County at the time of his death which occurred on or about August 2, 1940. He was killed while riding a bicycle which was in collision on a highway in that County with a motor truck of the defendants, a partnership engaged as a common carrier of goods for hire in and through the County of Chesterfield and other parts of the State of South Carolina.

This action was commenced in the Court of Common Pleas for Chesterfield County on or about the 11th day of…