Thomas v. Atlantic Greyhound Corp.

Mr. Associate Justice FisitburnE

delivered the unanimous Opinion of the Court:

The plaintiff brought suit against the defendant bus company to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained in one of its buses on which he was being transported as a passenger on August 18, 1942, from Florence to Coward, South Carolina: He alleged that his injuries were received because the bus was overcrowded, improperly ventilated, and was parked for an unreasonable length of time in the hot afternoon sun, as the result of which he became unconscious from heat exhaustion.

The defendant…