Dallas Ry. & Terminal Co. v. Latham

YOUNG, Justice.

Appellee’s suit for personal injuries resulted in a jury verdict and judgment for $1,000. In our review of the record, the parties will be referred to as in the trial court, or by name. On the morning of May 26, 1938, plaintiff, Iva Latham, was a passenger on a local bus of defendant, which was proceeding south on Tyler Street in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas. She alleged that, at the intersection of Melba Street, the operator of the bus caused it to slow down suddenly and without warning, and to violently swerve aside from its. course of travel, such movement being unusual…