Union Transfer Co. v. Finch

This was an action for $25,000 damages for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff, Mary Pinch, when she was run down by a bus of the defendant company, a Tennessee corporation operating busses under chapter 58 of the Public Acts of 1929.

The declaration, as amended, contained four counts, as follows:(1) That the defendant’s driver negligently and wrongfully ran one of its busses at'an unlawful and reckless rate of speed upon and against the plaintiff, without sounding an alarm and without putting down the brakes, or attempting to stop, thereby seriously and permanently injuring her.(2)…