Tri-State Transit Co. v. Martin

Appellee, a negro woman, thirty-seven years of age, had arranged to visit her parents, who resided in Jones county about four miles from Summerland; and as a part of that arrangement a conveyance was to be sent to Summerland to meet her on arrival of appellant’s noonday bus on Thursday, August 13, 1936. On the morning of that day appellee, with three children, took passage on one of appellant’s busses, having procured and presented the necessary tickets to Summerland; and her brother went to Summerland with a conveyance to meet her, as previously arranged.

The bus driver was a new employee on…