Carma v. Swindler

Legge, Justice.

While walking across a paved highway after dark, appellant was struck by respondent’s truck, and she brought this action to recover damages for resulting personal injury. She appeals from an order of nonsuit.

On the evening of October 30, 1953, about seven o’clock, appellant, a colored woman aged fifty-four years, was returning on a bus from Columbia to her home in or near the State Park Division of South Carolina State Hospital, which is located on the two-lane paved highway known as Farrow Road, about six miles out of the city. In company with her were her adopted daughter,…