Birmingham Electric Co. v. Hawkins

PRICE, Judge.

This action was brought against Birmingham Electric Company to recover damages for an assault upon plaintiff by defendant’s bus driver.

Plaintiff was driving his automobile, his wife and her young brother being with him at the time. Defendant’s bus, a trolley coach, was operated by Mr. Wint. Plaintiff contends the bus driver ran him so close to the curb he was forced to stop at Seventeenth Street, and the bus driver blew his horn and blinked his lights at his car several times. The bus driver contended plaintiff kept slowing down and starting up again, refusing to let him pass.

Both…