# Biggers v. Continental Bus System, Inc.

> Texas Supreme Court · May 22, 1957 · 157 Tex. 351

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9636027

## Case

- **Full name:** Mrs. Patricia Biggers Et Al v. Continental Bus System, Incorporated
- **Court:** Texas Supreme Court
- **Decided:** May 22, 1957
- **Citations:** 157 Tex. 351; 303 S.W.2d 359; 1957 Tex. LEXIS 578
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Griffin
- **Judges:** Calvert, Griffin
- **Cited by:** 297 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

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## Opinion text

Mr. Justice Griffin
dissenting.
I have not changed my mind about this case and dissent from its present disposition.
*367 I have set out my views at great length in the former majority opinion, and I adopt it as the dissent in this cause. * ’
To me, the evidence shows beyond controversy that the Ford “jumped out” in front of the respondent’s bus, as testified to by petitioners’ own witness, Mitchell. When this happened (and without any negligence on the part of the bus driver) there did not remain sufficient time and distance for the bus driver to have done anything to avoid the collision. Therefore, the Bus Company should not have any damages adjudged against it.
Opinion delivered May 22, 1957.
The majority opinion on first hearing, by Justice Griffin, is now entered as his dissent in the present case, as follows:

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