Consolidated Coach Corporation v. Hopkins

Opinion of the Court by

Commissioner Stanley

Affirming.

A bus of the appellant, Consolidated Coach Corporation, a common carrier, being driven from Louisville to Lexington, left the road on a compound curve a short distance east of Shelbyville on the morning of February 2, 1927. It ran down an embankment a short distance over rough ground until it struck a fallen tree or other obstacle. It did not turn over. The appellee, Mrs. Julia Hopkins, who was one of the passengers, instituted this suit for damages sustained in that accident. A judgment of $2,200 was recovered, from which the appeal is…