Jenkins v. General Cab. Co. of Nashville, Inc.

This is an appeal from the judgment of the trial court sustaining a demurrer to the declaration. It is shown by the declaration that plaintiff, with her niece, became passenger for hire on a taxicab operated by defendants in the city of Nashville. Upon entering the taxicab and directing the driver to carry her to a designated place, the plaintiff discovered that he was her estranged husband from whom she was living apart and against whom a divorce suit was pending.

It is charged (1) that the driver operating the cab did so in such reckless manner as to injure plaintiff on the face and about…