Missouri Pacific Transportation Co. v. Shepherd

The appellee, David Edgar Shepherd, on January 12, 1941, at about four or four-thirty a. m., took passage on 'the bus of appellant, Missouri Pacific Transportation Company, at Coal Hill, Arkansas, and paid his fare to Port Smith, Arkansas. '

It was alleged in the complaint that it was dark and there were no lights on the bus; that after the bus had reached Crawford county a heavy suitcase and bundle of newspapers, which were in a rack on the opposite side of the bus from appellee, fell out of the rack and onto appellee causing him to lose consciousness and injuring him severely; that the…