Jeff Hunt MacHinery Co. v. South Carolina State Highway Department

Oxner, Justice.

This case is here on the pleadings. The questions involved are:

May a person whose property has been damaged by reason of a defect in a State highway but who has been fully reimbursed for such loss under a policy of insurance, maintain an action against the State Highway Department for the amount of such damage under Section 5887 of the 1942 Code of Laws for South Carolina?

Is the ferry which crosses the Inland Waterway at a point south of Georgetown, known as South Island Ferry, part of a State highway within the contemplation of the section of the Code above mentioned?

Respondent…