Crown Coach Company v. Whitaker

This is an appeal by a common carrier from a judgment awarding damages because of injuries sustained by a passenger.

On February 2, 1943, Mrs. Whitaker, riding on a ticket from Tulsa, Oklahoma, to New Iberia, Louisiana, reached Texarkana, Texas, at about 9:30 a.m. Central wartime, on a bus of the Crown Coach Company. The weather was inclement and visibility was poor. Mrs. Whitaker was to change at Texarkana, from the bus of the appellant company to a Tri-State bus, to proceed to Shreveport, Louisiana. The Crown Coach Company used as its terminal the station of the Greyhound lines in Texarkana,…