Eickhoff v. Beard-Laney, Inc.

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Associate Justice Stukes:

Plaintiff was an occupant of her husband’s automobile operated by him on his right side of the center of the paved highway, State No. 2, near Summerville, in the early afternoon of a clear day in August, 1941, when it was struck without warning from behind by a gasoline tank truck, which is a defendant as are the owner and the insurer of the latter asa public carrier.

The Eickhoffs and a young lady guest were en route from their home in Chattanooga to Charleston to visit their son who was employed at the navy yard and they…