Legal Opinion
Spahn v. Town of Port Royal
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Decided March 9, 1998No. 24772PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WALLER, Justice:
We granted certiorari to review the Court of Appeal’s opinion Spahn v. Town of Port Royal, 326 S.C. 632, 486 S.E.2d 507 (1997). We affirm as modified.
FACTS/ISSUE
This is a comparative negligence case arising out of an accident in which the petitioner, John David Spahn, was injured when an automobile driven by John H. Griffith, a police officer for the Town of Port Royal, struck a jonboat Spahn was attempting to remove from the middle of the road. 1 Spahn and his brother were attempting to retrieve the boat, which had fallen off the roof of Spahn’s brother’s automobile and…
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