Cox v. Peerless Life Insurance

The appellant filed suit in the Circuit Court of Quit-man County alleging, in part, that while traveling on a bus from Lake Charles, Louisiana, to her home near Clarksdale, Mississippi, and while changing from one of the Continental busses at Kinder, Louisiana, she was hit by a passenger and knocked onto the floor of said bus, and that she received serious injuries which necessitated hospital treatment.

The insurance company filed a demurrer based on the ground that the declaration did not state a cause of action. This demurrer was sustained by the circuit court and appellant appeals.

There was…