West v. Sowell

Moss, Justice.

These two actions, arising out of the same automobile accident, were tried together by consent of the parties and resulted in verdicts for actual damages in favor of the respondents, who are husband and wife. The accident occurred at about 7:30 o’clock A. M. on October 10, 1958, on Highway No. 903, about one and one-half miles west of Flat Creek School in Lancaster County, South Carolina, when a Ford automobile owned by the resptndent, William T. West, and driven by the respondent, Ruby R. West, collided with the rear of a Ford truck owned by Hubert Sowell, and operated at the…