Cardell v. Tennessee Electric Power Co.

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment on a directed verdict. The suit was for damages for the negligent killing ‘of plaintiff’s husband in- a collision between his truck and a bus owned by defendant.

Plaintiff pleaded that while plaintiffs decedent, in the exercise of due care, was driving his truck along a paved public highway in the state of Tennessee, some distance in the rear of and following the defendant’s bus, the bus suddenly and negligently, without warning or apparent reason therefor, turned to the left and came to a stop on the pavement so suddenly and so violently…