Southern Kansas Stage Lines v. Gibson

BRATTON, Circuit Judge.

This action for the recovery of damages is the outgrowth of a traffic accident which occurred on the main highway between Wagoner and Muskogee in Oklahoma. Plaintiff was a passenger for hire on defendant’s bus traveling southward. A road enters the highway from the west at a point near the village of Wybark and there is a filling station on the east side of the highway immediately opposite that point. As the bus approached the village and while traveling at between forty and fifty miles per hour, it overtook a truck going in the same direction. The bus driver sounded…