Merritt v. E. L. Bruce Co.

HAMITER, Judge.

A school bus, carrying about sixty children, departed from Oak Grove High School on the afternoon of October 24, 1934, and proceeded in an easterly direction on the hard-surfaced Oak Grove-Lake Providence highway. After traveling about two miles, the bus was stopped on the south side of the road, its right wheels being on the shoulder, for the purpose of discharging Pauline Merritt, the nine year old daughter of plaintiffs herein and one of the occupants of such bus, who lived in that vicinity. When the driver opened the door on the right side of the bus, the child descended to…