Beaumont City Lines, Inc. v. Williams

COE, Chief Justice.

Clifton Williams, appellee, instituted this suit, seeking to recover damages from ■appellant, Beaumont City Lines, Inc., alleging that his wife, Sophie Williams, entered a bus operated by appellant and paid her fare and had turned to leave the bus for the purpose of re-entering it from the rear; that the driver failed to keep the •bus stationary and was thus negligent, causing the injuries complained of. The appellant, Beaumont City Lines, Inc., answered by general denial and special pleas of contributory negligence and unavoidable accident. The case was submitted to the…