Bennett v. Bartlett

Hatcher, Judge:

This is an action for damages for personal injury in which "the plaintiff recovered a verdict and judgment for $17,500.

The alleged injury occurred in the afternoon of January 19, 1928, on the brick highway near Pruntytown, while the ■plaintiff was a passenger (for hire) in a public bus operated ■by the defendant. It was raining at the time of the accident. In rounding a curve 233 feet from a concrete bridge, the bus ■got partly on the right hand berm of the road and before it entirely regained the hard surface, it ran into the side wall of the bridge, which tore out its right…