Joplin v. South Texas Coaches, Inc.

GRAVES, Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment of the' 80th District Court of Harris County, against appellant and in appellee’s favor, entered at the latter’s motion upon a jury’s verdict in response to special-issues, wherein it was found that “an unexpected, violent, and unusual bounce and jerk of the bus”, on which she was riding as a fare-paying passenger, had not occurred, as appellant had alleged as the basis for her suit for damages herein against the appel-lee as the owner and operator of such Idus.

The issue of fact so answered had been a hotly contested one upon the evidence, the…