Teche Lines, Inc. v. Bounds

Appellee alleged in his declaration and by his testimony that he was severely and permanently injured in his left eye by a piece of loose gravel thrown from the wheels of one of appellant’s busses, as a proximate consequence of the excessive and unlawful rate of speed at which the bus was traveling on a public highway, and as it passed appellee, who was traveling in an automobile in the opposite direction. On the facts, the case in many respects is similar to Teche Lines, Inc., v. Bateman, 162 Miss. 404, 139 So. 159.

Appellee averred that a piece of gravel, so thrown, struck the left lens of…