Cartwright v. Graves

These are two consolidated actions brought to recover damages for injuries to Joyce Graves, a child just under six years of age. The Court of Appeals affirmed judgments awarding to the child $4,000 and to her father, J. H. Graves, $1,000. This Court granted certiorari.

We are called upon to declare the measure of care which the law exacts of the driver of a school bus for the safety of young children entrusted to him for transportation. The use of these busses for such purposes is a custom of relatively recent origin. The rapid spread of the custom and incidental multiplication of accidents…