Missouri Pacific Transportation Co. v. Kinney

Appellants bring this appeal from a judgment of the Clark circuit court on a jury’s verdict, in the sum of $8,000, in favor of appellee, for injuries alleged to have been sustained by him while a passenger on a motor bus of appellant, Missouri Pacific Transportation Company.

This record reflects, according to appellee’s testimony, that he, Ralph Kinney, at about five o’clock on the afternoon of July 1, 1938, boarded appellants’ bus at Brinkley, Arkansas. He walked down the aisle, which was about fourteen inches wide, toward the rear, looking for a seat. As he did so, the bus driver, J. H.…