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WHETSTON v. S.C. DEPT. OF HWYS. & PUB. TRANS.

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272 S.C. 324 (1979)

252 S.E.2d 35

Dora WHETSTONE, Respondent, v. SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION and Bell Lewis, Defendants, of whom South Carolina Department of Highways and Public Transportation is Appellant. Andrew WHETSTONE, As Administrator of John Henry Benjamin, Respondent, v. SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION and Bill Lewis, Defendants, of whom South Carolina Department of Highways and Public Transportation is Appellant. Ann Bell BENJAMIN, by her guardian ad litem, Andrew Whetstone, Respondent, v. SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION and Bell Lewis, Defendants, of whom South Carolina Department of Highways and Public Transportation is Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

January 30, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Daniel R. McLeod, Deputy Atty. Gen. Victor S. Evans and Asst. Atty. Gen. Keith M. Babcock, Columbia, and Brown, Jefferies & Boulware, Barnwell, for appellant.

Blatt & Fales, Barnwell, and Zack E. Townsend, Orangeburg, for respondents.

James F. Walsh, Jr., Orangeburg, for defendant Lewis.

January 30, 1979

RHODES, JUSTICE:

This appeal is from an order denying the motion of appellant South Carolina Department of Highways and Public Transportation (hereafter the Department) for a dismissal or, in the alternative, for a change of venue of the present actions.

Consolidated in this appeal are three lawsuits which arose from a collision in Orangeburg County between a highway department motor grader and an automobile driven by Bell Lewis and...

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