Greyhound Lines, Inc. v. Patterson

The plaintiff in error Greyhound Lines, Inc., a corporation, is a common carrier of passengers, and in that business operates motor buses between Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Atlanta, Georgia.

A bus operated by plaintiff in error, in which Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Patterson were riding as passengers, left the highway, knocked down or “cut off” a telephone pole, and turned over onto its side, near the foot of a mountain it was descending about eighteen ox-twenty miles north of the City of Rome, Georgia, in the nighttime on December 29, 1930.

Mrs. Pattex-son sued the Greyhound Lines, Inc., for damages…