Clifton v. Tri-State Transit Co. of Louisiana

PONDER, Justice.

A motor vehicle collision occurred on U.S. Highway No. 80 in Richland Parish, on‘December 17, 1939, wherein a Chevrolet car, owned and operated by Daniel E. Jones, collided with a passenger motor bus owned by the Tri-State Transit Company of Louisiana, Inc., operated by its employee. At the time of the collision, the bus was carrying some thirty-five passengers, among whom were Miss Mattie Tyson, Mrs. Howard Clifton, and Mrs. Eva Newberry. Mrs. Clifton and her husband, Howard Clifton, instituted suit on September 9, 1940, in the Fifth Judicial Court for the Parish of Rich-land…