Wright v. South Carolina Power Co.

Mr. Associate Justice Stukes

delivered the unanimous Opinion of the Court:

Appellant’s intestate, who was fifty-two years of age, was killed by a city bus of respondent as she was attempting to cross Columbus, an express street of Charleston. The bus was east bound on its right side of the street and had passed thirty of forty feet beyond the intersection with Hampstead, a street running north and south. The preceding block of Columbus bisected a park or playground, known as Hamp-stead Mall, along which a municipal ordinance prescribed a speed limit of ten miles per hour. Because Columbus was…