American Fidelity & Casualty Co. v. Williams

HALL, 0. J.

Ed C. Abbott was licensed as a “motor bus company” under the provisions of Vernon’s Annotated Civil Statutes, art. 911a, which relates to the regulation of motor bus transportation. He was engaged in operating a line of motor busses from Lubbock to Spur, Tex., over a specified route. On June 1, 192S, one of Abbott’s motor busses, while being operated by a son, an employee, on Tenth street, in the city of Lubbock, ran over the minor daughter of appellees F. V. Williams and Sarah Williams. The child died the same night, and Williams and wife recovered a judgment against' Abbott on…