Wood v. Southeastern Greyhound Lines

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Siler

Affirming.

The appellant, Roy D. Wood, sought to recover damages in the sum of $17,500 against appellee, Southeastern Greyhound Lines, resulting from a personal assault committed upon appellant by appellee’s bus driver. From a judgment of the trial court sustaining a general demurrer to his petition, as amended, the appellant now prosecutes this appeal.

The essential and pertinent allegations set up by appellant for his cause of action in his petition and amended petition are in the following averments, viz.: That appellee’s bus driver, L. C. Hoskins, was…