Jackson v. City of Columbia

(dissenting) :

This action, commenced in the Court of Common Pleas for Richland County, is a suit by Emma Stogner Jackson, administratrix of the estate of John Melvin Jackson, deceased, against the City of Columbia, for the purpose of recovery of damages, in the sum of $50,000.00, for the alleged wrongful death of the said John Melvin Jackson, who, according to the plaintiff’s allegations, was killed in an automobile accident when the car in which he was riding with one Pendergrass struck a truck of the City of Columbia which was alleged to have been parked and standing, unlighted and…