Shields Ex Rel. Estate of Shields v. South Carolina Department of Highways & Public Transportation
Court of Appeals of South Carolina
1Opinion of the Court
Goolsby, Judge:
This is a wrongful death action brought by Carlton A. Shields, Sr., as administrator of the estate of Carlton A. Shields, Jr., against the South Carolina Department of Highways and Public Transportation. The administrator’s son died when his automobile plunged into a 40-foot-wide, 15-foot-deep washout on a secondary road marked by a single “Road Closed” sign. The Department maintained no barricade between the sign and washout. Shields alleged in his complaint that the Department failed “to follow its own procedures regarding the type and placement of barricades and warning…
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- Hawkins v. ChandlerIdaho Supreme Court · 1964
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