Teche Lines, Inc. v. Pope

Appellant is a common carrier of passengers by bus, and, among others, operates a line along the coast upon what is known as highway No. 90. At a community in Jackson county known as Kreole, this highway crosses the railroad tracks of the Mississippi Export Bailroad Company. About four forty-five o’clock on the morning of July 25,1935, a passenger bus of appellant was traveling eastwardly at the point mentioned, the bus being driven by one Berwick. The vehicle was about thirty feet long, weighed armroximatelv ten tons, and had a seating capacity of thirty-nine uassengers. A torrential rain…