Stanley v. South Carolina State Highway Department

Lewis, Justice.

This action was brought against the State Highway Department to recover damages sustained in an intersectional automobile collision which allegedly resulted from the obstruction of plaintiff’s view at the intersection by underbrush which the Highway Department permitted to grow on the untraveled portion of its right of way. The sufficiency of the complaint to state a cause of action against the Highway Department, based upon such obstruction of view, was challenged by demurrer which the lower court sustained, and plaintiff has appealed.

The basic question for decision is whether…