Shamblee v. Virginia Transit Co.

Mary S. Shamblee, appellant, instituted this action against Virginia Transit Company, appellee, to recover damages for personal injuries she received while riding as a paying passenger on one of the company’s buses. The jury returned a verdict for plaintiff in the sum of $4,000, and defendant’s motion to set it aside as being contrary to the law and the evidence was sustained. From this action of the court, plaintiff was awarded a writ of error.

The litigants will be referred to at times in accordance with the respective positions they occupied in the trial court.

On November 11, 1961, at…