Hicks v. Brown

STOKES, Justice.

This is an action for damages filed by appellee, Edna Brown, a colored woman, against appellants, Emma Hicks, doing business under the trade name of Yellow Cab Company, and Hammond Taxi & Baggage Company, a private corporation, both of whom operate taxi cabs in the city of Amarillo. Appellee alleged that on the 8th of November, 1937, at about three o’clock A. M. she was a passenger in the Yellow taxi cab, traveling south on Harrison Street in Amarillo and that, as the cab reached the intersection of Third Avenue which crosses Harrison Street, one of the cabs of appellant,…