Airline Motor Coaches, Inc. v. Caver

Petitioner, an inter-city motor bus carrier, seeks relief here from unfavorable judgments in both courts below in a suit against it by J. J. Caver, respondent, for personal injuries said to have been caused to respondent’s wife in 1944 while a passenger on petitioner’s bus by a portable radio of a fellow passenger which fell from an overhead luggage rack into the head of Mrs. Caver. The case has been tried twice, the last trial leading to three opinions in the Court of Civil Appeals. Of these, the first two held there was no evidence to sustain the sole finding of negligence, while the final…