Selfe v. Hale

On the afternoon of January 6, 1949, Beulah .Hale, a young unmarried woman twenty-two years of age, was a passenger on a bus operated by C. C. Selfe, trading as C. C. Selfe Bus Lines, between Richlands, in Tazewell county, and Honaker in Russell county, Virginia. She was on her way from Richlands, where she was regularly employed, to her home in the village of Swords Creek in Russell county. Since the bus route did not run through Swords Creek it was her custom to alight at a near-by road junction and walk to her home.

On this occasion, about five p. m., during daylight, the bus stopped on the…