GREYHOUND CORPORATION v. WILSON

No. 16437.

250 F.2d 509 (1957)

The GREYHOUND CORPORATION, Appellant, v. Mrs. Annie M. WILSON, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied January 9, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William L. Clark, Reid B. Barnes, Birmingham, Ala., Lange, Simpson, Robinson & Somerville, Birmingham, Ala., of counsel, for appellant.

John D. Higgins, Birmingham, Ala., Taylor, Higgins, Windham & Perdue, Birmingham, Ala., of counsel, for appellee.

Before RIVES, JONES and BROWN, Circuit Judges.


JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge.

The sole question is whether, as a matter of law, the evidence was insufficient to support the jury verdict and judgment entered on it holding that the Bus Company breached its duty to fare-paying passengers to provide a safe exit from the Bus Company's depot at Tupelo, Mississippi.

Mrs. Wilson, a fare-paying passenger, received severe injuries in a fall caused, she claimed, by an abrupt and inadequately marked step-down at the...

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