Airline Motor Coaches, Inc. v. Fields

Mr. Presiding Judge Smedley

delivered the opinion of the Commission of Appeals, Section B.

After trial before a jury, judgment was rendered in district court in favor of respondent Dee Fields against petitioner Airline Motor Coaches, Inc., for $7,500.00, as compensation for injuries suffered by Fields in a collision between petitioner’s bus, in which Fields was a passenger, and a lumber truck owned by respondents Ben Ogletree and G. R. Ogletree and operated by respondent Earl McAllister. The Court of Civil Appeals affirmed the trial court’s judgment. 159 S. W. (2d) 187.

The suit as originally…