Dixie Greyhound Lines, Inc. v. Everett

The appellant operates a bus line, and is a common carrier of passengers for hire between Jackson, Mississippi, and Memphis, Tennessee, and particularly through the Town of Cruger in this State, some distance north of Jackson. Appellee, who was accompanied by her brother, Gladney Grey, purchased a ticket from the agent at Jackson to the Town of Cruger for the purpose of going on the bus to that point on a visit to her brother, Ed Grey, who was then critically ill. They had not been to Cruger on any previous occasion, and neither of them knew just where Ed Grey lived, except that the letter…