Hunt v. Dixie Motor Coach Corporation

WILLIAMS, Justice.

The trial court sustained each and all the exceptions leveled by Dixie Motor Coach Corporation, defendant below, to the original petition filed by Eula Hunt, wherein she sought to recover judgment for damages for the death of her father, Frank Fields, grounded on alleged negligence of defendant. Declining to amend, plaintiff appeals from the decree which dismissed the cause of action.

Plaintiff after pleading that the defendant as a common carrier of passengers operated motor busses for public hire over Texas Highway No. 5, which included the highway connecting the city of…