Fork Ridge Bus Line v. Matthews

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Clay

— Reversing.

The appeal is from a judgment for $2,614 for per-?, sonal injuries.

The facts are these: The Pork Ridge Bus Line, a partnership composed of Dewey Dillman and Harry' Kivett, operated a bus line between Middlesboro and Pork Ridge, Tenn. About 7 o’clock on the evening of October 19, 1931, appellee, J. R. Matthews, age 72, while walking on Exeter avenue in the city of Middlesboro, was struck and- severely injured by a bus belonging to the partnership, and driven by Dewey Dillman. According to Matthews, he alighted from a truck on the right hand side of…