Southeastern Greyhound Lines, Inc. v. Smith

S. A. Smith instituted this suit in the Circuit Court of Knox County for damages, on account of the alleged misconduct of defendant and its agents in assaulting him and causing him to be arrested and taken from one of defendant’s busses while he was a passenger thereon going from Knoxville to Maynardville. Defendant filed its general plea of not guilty, and also specially pleaded in defense of the alleged wrongful removal of plaintiff from the bus that plaintiff was under the influence of intoxicating liquor; that he was violating a rule of the company in that he was standing in the aisle of…