Bennevendo v. Houston Transit Co.

CODY, Justice.

This is- an appeal from a judgment based on a directed verdict which was given at the conclusion of plaintiff’s evidence, in response to defendant’s motion.

The Action was brought by a nineteen year old minor, acting by next friend, against the defendant, which is the corporation which operates the bus- system serving the public in the -City of Houston.

The plaintiff alleged in substance that just-after he and; his girl — now wife — had become passengers on one of defendant’s buses, on July 4, 1948, the driver kicked a drunken man off the bus, who was tendering, himself as a…