Amberson v. Paramount Famous Lasky Corp.

WALKER, Chief Justice.

On the 5th day of December, 1929, appellant, Joe Amberson, under the name of Union Bus Lines, was doing business as a common carrier operating a bus line between San Antonio and San Angelo, Tex. On that day ap-pellee, Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation, delivered to him for shipment two boxes of films, one to be delivered at Eden and the other at Mason, two' points on his established bus route. A short distance out of San Antonio, and before either of the boxes was delivered, one of them exploded, thereby burning appellant’s bus. This suit was by appellant against…