Stroy v. Millwood Drug Store, Inc.

Oxner, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order of the Circuit Court reversing and setting aside an award for compensation upon the ground that any right thereto was barred by the action of the employee in prosecuting to a final conclusion an action for damages against a third party.

On November 25, 1957, appellant, a 20 year old Negro, while riding a motorcycle in the course of his employment with respondent Millwood Drug Store, Inc., sustained severe personal injuries as a result of a collision in the City of Columbia between said motorcycle and a taxicab owned and operated by the Checker Cab…