Chamberlain v. Mo.-Ark. Coach Lines, Inc.

This appeal is from a judgment in the sum of $10,000 for wrongful death of the wife of plaintiff. At about two o'clock in the morning of December 14, 1940, plaintiff, his wife, his small son, and his wife's brother, Elmer Allen, started to drive in plaintiff's automobile from Kansas City, Missouri, to Versailles, Missouri; plaintiff was driving and his wife was seated in the front seat on his right. When traveling eastwardly on United States Highway No. 50, at a point about eight miles east of the city limits of Kansas City, the automobile collided with the rear end of the defendant's bus No.…