Crawford v. Southern Kansas Stage Lines Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, C. J.:

This was an action for damages for injuries sustained in a motor bus in which plaintiff was a passenger, on a journey between Kansas City, Mo., and Richmond, Mo.

Plaintiff recovered judgment, and defendant appeals, assigning various errors, the first of which pertains to the overruling of defendant’s demurrer to plaintiff’s evidence.

The principal defense to this action was that the bus on which plaintiff was a passenger was one which defendant had leased or loaned to another corporation, the Blue Motor Coach Lines, Inc., and that defendant…