Hunter v. Boyd

Circuit Judge L. D. Tide, Acting Associate Justice,

delivered the unanimous Opinion of the Court:

This case comes to us upon an appeal from an order of the Greenville County Court sustaining the demurrer of the defendants to the complaint for insufficiency of factual allegations in an action brought to recover actual and punitive damages for the death by alleged wrongful act, neglect or default on the part of the defendants, of Cyril Hunter, a small boy seven years of age, the beneficiaries of such action being his parents.

It appears from the complaint that the child, Cyril Hunter, plaintiff’s…