Capital Motor Lines v. Gillette

BOULDIN, Justice.

Action in damages for alleged personal injuries received in a collision of motor vehicles on a public highway.

Defendant Capital Motor Lines was operating a bus on Montgomery and Mobile Highway, as a common carrier of passengers for hire.

Plaintiff, Mrs. Frank A. Gillette, was a passenger on this bus, going from Montgomery toward Mobile. At a point a few miles north of Fort Deposit, another accident had occurred, wherein an automobile had catapulted from the highway. Some cars had stopped near the scene of the accident, and several men were standing along the railing to the…