Eggermont v. Central Surety & Insurance

The petition prays judgment against defendant for $3,000, alleging that while plaintiff; a resident of Iowa, was traveling between Hayti, Missouri, and St. Louis, Missouri, as a passenger on a motorbus of Dixie Greyhound Lines, a common carrier, she was injured by the negligence of said carrier, to her damage in the amount of $3,000; that said carrier is a foreign corporation and service cannot be made upon it in Iowa; that section 5729, Revised Statutes of Missouri, 1939, and Rule 19 of its Public Service Commission require such carriers to carry insurance for the benefit of the traveling…