McClellan v. Tennessee Electric Power Co.

This is a suit for damages to recover for injuries sustained by the plaintiff while riding as a passenger on a bus of the defendant. The case was tried on a stipulation of facts and the trial judge rendered a judgment for defendant, from which the plaintiff appealed in error to this court.

Briefly stated, the facts are that this bus was being operated by defendant as a common carrier and that plaintiff was a passenger thereon. During the progress of the trip, the motorman lost consciousness and consequently lost control of the vehicle. The bus ran out of the highway into a pole on the side of…