Murray v. Rio Grande Motorway, Inc.

MURRAH, Circuit Judge.

Appellant brought this action against appellee, Rio Grande Motorway, seeking damages for personal injuries, alleging that one of the appellee’s buses, on which he was a standing passenger, “suddenly and violently lurched to one side” and hurled him against a seat with such “force and violence” that he was1 ruptured in his left groin.

At the conclusion of all the evidence, the trial court sustained a motion for a directed verdict on the ground that the movement complained of was no more than the normal jostling or movement of the bus as it traveled along the highway. The…