Simpson v. Doggett

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Brease.

The appeal in this case is on the part of the plaintiff, by her guardian ad litem, from an order of his Honor, Special-Judge Wilton H. Earle, presiding in the Court of Common Pleas for Spartanburg County, refusing to vacate a judgment rendered theretofore in favor of the plaintiff against the defendants.

The pertinent facts, apparently conceded by all the parties, are thesé: The plaintiff Gaynelle Simpson, a minor 19 years of age, in January, 1929, while walking -along a highway in Spartanburg County, was struck by an automobile owned…