Payne v. Continental Southern Lines

HARDY, Judge.

This is an action for damages sustained by plaintiff while a fare-paying passenger of the defendant bus line, attributable to the latter’s negligence. From a judgment in favor of plaintiff in the principal sum of $250.00, he prosecutes this appeal.

While en route from Bastrop, Louisiana, to Beaumont, Texas, on August 7, 1959, a large suitcase, dislodged from an overhead baggage rack, struck plaintiff on the right side of his neck and upper shoulder, allegedly causing bodily injuries. Arriving in Beaumont late in the afternoon, plaintiff contends that his condition grew…