Swain v. Oregon Motor Stages

This is an appeal by the plaintiff from a judgment entered upon the verdict of a jury in the defendant’s favor. The complaint prayed for the recovery of damages which it alleged the plaintiff suffered November 4, 1936, when the defendant’s motor bus, in which the plaintiff was riding as a passenger for hire, collided at the intersection of Berry street and Rural avenue, Salem, with an automobile driven by one Prank Weddle. The complaint averred, and the answer denied, that the bus was operated in a negligent manner. The plaintiff, his wife, one other passenger by the name of Mrs. Ethel…