Southeastern Stages, Inc. v. Stringer

Hunstein, Justice.

Walker L. Stringer, Jr. purchased a bus ticket in Augusta from Travel, Inc. of South Carolina on June 13, 1989 and boarded a bus owned and operated by Southeastern Stages, Inc. Shortly before the bus reached its Atlanta destination, he was shot and killed in an unprovoked attack by Perry Tyrone Irvin, a fellow passenger. Summary judgment was granted to Southeastern, its insurer, and Travel in the wrongful death action brought by Stringer’s parents and the representative of his estate (the Stringers). A plurality of the Court of Appeals reversed the trial court. Stringer v.…