MICKLE v. BLACKMON

18869

252 S.C. 202 (1969)

166 S.E.2d 173

Janet MICKLE, by her Guardian ad litem, W.E. Mickle, Plaintiff-Respondent-Appellant, v. Larry Wayne BLACKMON, Respondent, and Ford Motor Company, Incorporated, Respondent-Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

February 10, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. John M. Spratt, of York and Taylor B. Rion, and Robinson, McFadden & Moore, of Columbia, for Appellant, Cherokee, Inc.

Messrs. James P. Mozingo, III, and D. Kenneth Baker, of Darlington, Hayes, Brunson & Gatlin, of Rock Hill, William E. Chandler, Jr., of Greenville, and Greer & Chandler, of Darlington, for Respondent, as to Appellant, Cherokee, Inc.

Messrs. John M. Spratt, of York, S.C. and Taylor B. Rion and Robinson, McFadden & Moore of Columbia, for Appellant, Cherokee, Inc., in Reply.

Messrs. James P. Mozingo, III, and D. Kenneth Baker, of Darlington, Hayes, Brunson & Gatlin, of Rock Hill, William E. Chandler, of Greenville, and Greer & Chandler, of Darlington, for Appellant, Janet Mickle.

Messrs. Vernon E. Sumwalt, of Rock Hill and William B. Webb (now deceased), of Charlotte for Respondent, Ford Motor Company.

Messrs. James P. Mozingo, III, and D. Kenneth Baker, of Darlington, Hayes, Brunson & Gatlin, of Rock Hill, William E. Chandler, Jr., of Greenville, and Greer & Chandler, of Darlington, for Appellant, Janet Mickle, in Reply.

Messrs. Vernon E. Sumwalt, of Rock Hill, and William B. Webb (now deceased), of Charlotte, N.C., for Ford Motor Co., contingent and alternative Appellant.

Messrs. James P. Mozingo, III, and D. Kenneth Baker, of Darlington, Hayes, Brunson & Gatlin, of Rock Hill, and Greer & Chandler, of Darlington, for Appellant, Janet Mickle, in response to alternate appeal.

Messrs. Vernon E. Sumwalt, of Rock Hill, and William B. Webb, (now deceased), of Charlotte, N.C., for Respondent, Ford Motor Company, in Reply, on contingent and alternative appeal.


February 10, 1969.

BRAILSFORD, Justice.

On May 29, 1962, in the City of Rock Hill, seventeen-year-old Janet Mickle was a passenger in a 1949 Ford automobile, driven by Kenneth Hill. At the intersection of Jones Avenue and Black Street, this vehicle was in collision with an automobile driven by Larry Blackmon.

Janet was impaled on the gearshift lever, which entered her body behind the left armpit, penetrated to her spine, damaged the spinal cord at...

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