Dallas Railway & Terminal Co. v. Clayton

DIXON, Chief Justice.

Appellee sued appellant for personal injuries sustained by his wife when a bus on which she was a passenger collided with a guard rail on a viaduct between Oak Cliff and downtown Dallas. Judgment was rendered for appellee for $9,750.

In his petition appellee pled specific acts of negligence, but in an alternative alleged that the bus was owned and operated and was under the exclusive management and control of appellant, and further, that the collision was one which, in the ordinary course of events would not have happened if appellant had used a high degree of care in .…