Humphries v. Stokes Bus Line

The opinion of the Court was delivered by'

Mr. Associate Justice Fishburne.

The defendant, Stokes Bus Line, is engaged in the operation of motor buses as a common carrier for hire, and is appealing from an adverse judgment for actual damages awarded the plaintiff, predicated upon its negligent failure to properly heat the bus in which she was a passenger, by reason of which failure she was unduly exposed to the cold and made ill.

On the evening of December 24, 1937, the plaintiff, a young married woman, purchased from the defendant company a ticket from Columbia, South Carolina, to Darling-ton,…