Lemons v. Memphis Transit Management Co.

AVERY, P.J. (W.S.).

We have in this record two legal actions, filed at different times, one against each defendant but growing out of the same incident and against the employer and employee, consolidated and tried as one action.

Plaintiff’s decedent, Mathilda Herndon, was killed while walking across Crump Boulevard when struck with a street bus, operated by an employee of Memphis Transit Management Company, one Charles Lynn Jarrett. The accident in which plaintiff’s decedent was injured and in a few minutes thereafter died, occurred at the intersection of Somerville Street with E. H. Crump…