Capitol Transit Co. v. Burris

This is an appeal by a transportation company from a judgment for damages due to personal injuries sustained by a seven-year-old girl when struck by an automobile while attempting to cross the street in front of the bus from which she had alighted at a place other than the regular stopping place for the bus, and where there was no sidewalk but a steep embankment.

Billie Farrell Burris, a girl seven years of age, lives with her mother, Mavis Burris, on West 12th Street in Little Rock in the western part of the city. She attends the Peabody School located in downtown Little Rock. On the 9th day…