Legal Opinion
The Greyhound Corporation v. Mrs. Annie M. Wilson
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided January 9, 1958No. 16437_1PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge.
The sole question is whether, as a matter of law, the evidence was insufficient to support the jury verdict and judgment entered on it holding that the Bus Company breached its duty to fare-paying passengers to provide a safe exit from the Bus Company’s depot at Tupelo, Mississippi.
Mrs. Wilson, a fare-paying passenger, received severe injuries in a fall caused, she claimed, by an abrupt and inadequately marked step-down at the exit door leading from the interior of the Bus Station onto the sidewalk area then being used as a loading ramp for an awaiting bus.
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2Cases cited19 opinions
- West v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1940
- Marsh v. Illinois Cent. R. Co.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1949
- Six Companies of Cal. v. Joint Highway Dist. No. 13 of Cal.Supreme Court of the United States · 1940
- Johnson v. Kosmos Portland Cement Co.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1933
- American Fidelity & Casualty Company v. Mrs. Claire DrexlerCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1955
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3Cited by7 opinions
- Harvey Thomas Smoot, Jr. v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1962
- Edna Self Garrett v. American Airlines, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1964
- Ness v. West Coast Airlines, Inc.Idaho Supreme Court · 1965
- Ann Powell and Mabel P. Lanyon v. Safeway Trails, Inc., and Trailways Terminal of Washington, Inc.Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1959
- Nieman v. JacobsArizona Supreme Court · 1959
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