Searcy v. Interurban Transp. Co.

ODOM, Justice.

Plaintiff, a minister of the gospel, purchased a ticket and took passage on a passenger bus, operated by the Tri-State Transit Company, for Alexandria, La., about 22 miles way. While on the way he suffered a stroke of apoplexy, as a result of which he was paralyzed. When the bus was driven into the Union. Bus Station at Alexandria, all of the passengers except the minister left it. The bus, it seems, had to be put in readiness for another trip immediately, and the bus driver who had brought it to Alexandria, observing that the minister was still in his seat in the bus and seeing…