Fielding v. Publix Cars, Inc.

This is an action to recover damages in the sum of $15,000 for alleged negligence resulting in personal injuries to plaintiff.

Publix Cars, defendant, is a corporation conducting the business of a common carrier of passengers for hire in the city of Omaha. While plaintiff was a passenger in a Plymouth sedan taxicab, operated by defendant in or near the intersection of Forty-ninth and Izard streets, Omaha, September 1, 1933, he suffered injuries of which he complains.

The principal charge of negligence is that Elmer Denson, defendant’s driver of the cab, stopped it with a jerk and thus threw…