CITIZENS AND SOUTHERN NAT. BANK OF S. C. v. DICKERSON, INC.

No. 10523.

370 F.2d 692 (1966)

The CITIZENS AND SOUTHERN NATIONAL BANK OF SOUTH CAROLINA, as Committee for Harry J. Tumbleston, Jr., Appellee, v. DICKERSON, INC., Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided December 27, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles H. Gibbs, Charleston, S. C. (H. Fletcher Padget, Columbia, S. C., Sinkler, Gibbs & Simons, Charleston, S. C., and Turner, Padget, Graham & Laney, Columbia, S. C., on brief), for appellant.

Ernest F. Hollings, Charleston, S. C. (Falcon B. Hawkins, and Hollings & Hawkins, Charleston, S. C., on brief), for appellee.

Before BOREMAN and BRYAN, Circuit Judges, and LEWIS, District Judge.


OREN R. LEWIS, District Judge:

The plaintiff was seriously injured when the automobile in which he was a passenger came in contact with a portion of the temporary guardrail the defendant had erected along the western edge of the Sammy Swamp Bridge.

The jury brought in a verdict in his favor in the amount of $260,000.00 actual and $5,000.00 punitive damages. Counsel for the defendant timely moved for judgment notwithstanding...

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