Missouri Pacific Transportation Co. v. Priest

James Priest brought suit in the Crawford county circuit court against appellants to recover damages which he received by reason of an accident which occurred on September 13, 1938, when the said James Priest came upon a Missouri Pacific Transportation Company bus on the highway between Little Rock and Conway about five miles north of Levy, Arkansas, where said bus had run into and broken a pole of the Arkansas Power & Light Company upon which wires containing high and dangerous voltage of electricity were strung and which electricity charged the bus so that when James Priest alighted from…