Lipford v. General Road & Drainage Co.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before FeathErstone, J., County Court, Greenwood, May, 1921. Action by W. C. Lipford against General Road and-Drainage Construction Co. Judgment for plaintiff and defendant appeals.
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Before FeathErstone, J., County Court, Greenwood, May, 1921. Action by W. C. Lipford against General Road and-Drainage Construction Co. Judgment for plaintiff and defendant appeals. The complaint, omitting the formal parts thereof, is as follows: “(2) That heretofore, to wit, on the 9th day of April, 1921, at about 8:15 o’clock p. m., the plaintiff was traveling in a Ford automobile along a concrete road which was in the process of construction by the defendant company between South Greenwood and Greenwood, in the county aforesaid, traveling north, and that while so traveling his car ran into…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Chiee Justice Gary.
The only exception upon which the defendant appealed is as follows:
“(1) It was error on the part of the presiding Judge to refuse to direct a verdict in favor of the defendant, the error being: (a) The undisputed testimony shows that the only act of which the defendant was guilty was the parking of its car on one of the highways of the county in the usual and customary manner and that the sole cause of the accident was the manner in which the plaintiff operated his car. (b) There was no evidence tending to prove negligence…
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