Sutton v. Great Lakes Greyhound Lines, Inc.

MILLER, District Judge.

The plaintiff, a citizen of Tennessee, seeks by this action to recover from the defendant, Great Lakes Greyhound Lines, Inc., an Indiana corporation, doing business in Kentucky, $11,100 as damages suffered by her while being transported as a passenger on one of the defendant’s busses from Detroit, Michigan, to Nashville, Tennessee. The defendant has moved to dismiss the complaint because of its failure to state a cause of action, and also to require the plaintiff as a non-resident to execute a bond for costs.

The petition as amended alleges that when the bus in which the…