Louisville Transit Co. v. Sexton

REED, Judge.

This is a wrongful death case. Nellie C. Graham’s personal representative alleged that in June, 1966, while she was a passenger on a city bus owned by the defendant-appellant, Louisville Transit Company, Mrs. Graham received injuries that resulted in her later death. The bus stopped when an automobile operated by a nonappealing defendant, Mrs. Howard Martin, turned into the front of the bus and into the lane of traffic occupied by it. Nellie Graham fell to the floor of the bus and was injured. She died in August 1966.

At the trial of the wrongful death action, the jury rendered a…