Hames v. Old South Lines Inc.

1. A common carrier by motor vehicle may carry both white and colored passengers in the same vehicle by separating them in the most practicable manner. Code of 1933, § 68-616; Rule 35 of the Public-Service Commission as to common carriers by motor vehicles. A common carrier of passengers is bound to exercise extraordinary diligence to prevent insult, injury, or harm to a passenger transported by it. Code of 1933, § 18-304. As such it is liable whenever a passenger being transported by it suffers insult, mortification, or embarrassment resulting directly from the failure of its servants to…