Southeastern Greyhound Lines, Inc. v. Chumley

Stanley, Commissioner

Reversing.

The judgment for $12,500 is for personal injuries sustained by a passenger on a bus.

*157The appellee, Mrs. Anna Mae Chumley, and her husband boarded the bus at a point several miles north of Knoxville en route to their home in Middlesboro. All the seats were occupied, and they stood in the aisle near the back. Mrs. Chumley testified that as the bus approached a flag stop, two or three miles up the road, “A boy came out all at once from a little place and threw up his hand; he had a bag in his hand, and when he threw his hand up this bus driver threw on his brakes,…