Capitol Motor Lines, Inc. v. Billingslea

Plaintiff, John S. Billingslea, recovered damages of defendant for injuries received while a passenger on a common carrier bus operated by defendant, Capitol Motor Lines, Inc., which prosecutes this appeal.

The facts are simple. Plaintiff was asleep on the bus in transit on U.S. Highway 80 between Selma and Uniontown, Alabama, with one or both feet either close to, in, or protruding from an open window, when the bus collided with another motor vehicle, resulting in his catalogued injuries, including the immediate loss of one foot and the comminution and later amputation of the other above the…