Watts v. Memphis Transit Management Co.

This case comes before this Court on petition for certiorari heretofore granted.

In the trial court, both parties herein were defendants in a personal injury suit filed against them by Mary Y. Smith and Hardy Lee Jamison, Jr.

The accident from which this litigation evolved occurred on February 26, 1965. A Memphis Transit bus collided with an automobile driven by J. B. Watts, causing the bus to go out of control, striking and fatally injuring Hardy Lee Jamison, III. The plaintiff first brought suit in Federal Court, but that suit was dismissed. Within one year, the suit was refiled in Circuit…