Fisher v. J.H. Sheridan Co., Inc.

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. A. L. Gaston, Acting Associate Justice.

On July 26, 1934, James Ernest Fisher, who was then twelve years of age, was struck and killed by an automobile operated by J. H. Sheridan, and owned by the defendant ■corporation. At the time of the catastrophe, a school bus owned by the father of Ernest, and operated by him under .a contract with Anderson County for the transportation of ■children attending the public schools, had stopped on the paved surface at a point on the highway opposite Piercetown school, for the purpose of letting Ernest out. Ernest…