Parker v. Southeastern Haulers, Inc.

Mr. Associate Justice Stukes

delivered the unanimous opinion of the Court.

Respondent recovered a verdict and judgment against appellant in the Court of Common Pleas for Richland County at the October, 1945, term for $250.00 actual damages and $350.00 punitive damages, upon a complaint in which it was alleged that respondent was employed by appellant as the driver of a truck in its interstate transportation business; that in May, 1943, respondent was sent to Hattiesburg, Mississippi, to bring back a machine, called a “bulldozer”, without instructions that it exceeded in width the highway…