Bridge Transit Co. v. Leseuer

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Rees

Reversing.

The Bridge Transit Company operates a bus line from Jeffersonville, Indiana, across a bridge over the Ohio River to Louisville, Kentucky, south on Second street in Louisville to Guthrie street, west to Third street and thence north on Third street. On August 31, 1945, Carl G. Leseuer, an employee of the Jeffersonville Boat & Machine Company, was a passenger on a bus of the Bridge Transit Company when it collided with an automobile owned and driven by Yernon G. Winston, Sr. The collision occurred at the intersection of Second and Liberty…