Martin v. Greensboro-Fayetteville Bus Line

Civil action to recover damages for an alleged wrongful death occasioned by defendant's bus striking plaintiff's intestate on Main Street in the city of Durham, knocking him down and inflicting injuries from which he died.

The evidence discloses that on 10 October, 1926, Lester Griffin, driver of one of defendant's Greensboro-Fayetteville buses, arrived in Durham at 6:45 p.m., about an hour late, due to heavy traffic on the road; that, after unloading his passengers, he carried the bus to King's garage, where the defendant stores its buses for the night, and asked that one of the tires, which…