Missouri Pacific Transportation Co. v. Simon

Because a bus operated by Missouri Pacific Transportation Company was rendered immobile when a drive shaft broke, the agent in charge chartered taxicabs at Clarksville to carry passengers to Russellville. In one of the conveyances so engaged were Mrs. Fannie Pat Simon, Mrs. Etta Erwin, Mrs. W. M. Adcock and C. G. Bell. This cab collided in Russellville with an automobile driven by Mrs. John Leonard, one of the appellants herein.

' There were jury verdicts and judgments as follows : Mrs. Erwin and Mrs. Adcock, $25,000 each; Bell, $6,000; Mrs. Simon, $1,250; W. M. Adcock (for expenses and loss…