Humphries v. Queen City Coach Co.

BARNHILL. J., concurring. Civil action to recover damages for personal injuries allegedly resulting from actionable negligence of defendant.

Plaintiff alleges in her complaint these facts, briefly stated:(1) That on 7 November, 1945, plaintiff purchased a ticket from defendant, a common carrier of passengers for hire, for safe transportation on one of its buses from Laurinburg to Wilmington, in the State of North Carolina, and became a passenger thereon.(2) That the bus was in negligent, careless and defective condition in that there protruded from the floor or step of said bus and near the…