REED v. MEDLIN

21535

276 S.C. 604 (1981)

281 S.E.2d 125

Kitty Katherine REED, Executrix of the Estate of Wiley Dempsey Reed, Appellant-Respondent, v. N.R. MEDLIN, South Carolina Department of Highways and Public Transportation, Ronnie Lewis Fail, Roy Davis and Ted Davis, D/B/A Davis Logging Company, and Kearse Manufacturing Company, of whom South Carolina Department of Highways and Public Transportation is Respondent-Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

August 3, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James C. Williams, Jr., of Marshall, Nicholson & Williams, Orangeburg, for appellant-respondent.

Atty. Gen., Daniel R. McLeod, Asst. Atty. Gen., Richard D. Bybee, Columbia, and William Horger, Orangeburg, for respondent-appellant.


August 3, 1981.

GREGORY, Justice:

In these companion wrongful death and survival cases both parties appeal rulings of the trial judge on demurrers to three causes of action. We affirm.

The facts giving rise to these actions are as follows. The late husband of appellant-respondent Kitty Katherine Reed, Executrtix (Reed), Wiley Dempsey Reed, was killed when his vehicle was struck from the rear by a log truck...

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