Oliver Bus Lines v. Skaggs

Appellee brought this action in the circuit court of Yazoo county against appellant to recover damages for injuries received by him while a passenger on one of appellant’s busses, alleged to have been caused by the bus leaving the road and running into a ditch on the left-hand side, brought about through the alleged negligence of the driver of the bus. There was a verdict and judgment for appellee in the sum of five thousand dollars, from which judgment appellant prosecutes this appeal.

Appellee was going on sixty-seven years of age at the time of his injury. He testified that he was strong…