J. S. ABERCROMBIE CO. v. SCOTT

No. 12626.

267 S.W.2d 206 (1954)

J. S. ABERCROMBIE CO. v. SCOTT et al.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Galveston.

Rehearing Denied April 22, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fulbright, Crooker, Freeman & Bates and M. S. McCorquodale, Charles M. Haden, and William H. Vaughan, Jr., Houston, for appellant.

Frank Rosson, San Antonio, Eugene J. Wilson, Houston (Kemper & Wilson, Houston, of counsel), for appellee.


HAMBLEN, Chief Justice.

This suit was instituted in the District Court of Brazoria County by Mrs. Arminta Lois Scott, individually and as guardian of her three minor children, against J. S. Abercrombie Company to recover damages for the death of Floyd Scott, husband and father respectively of plaintiffs, which was alleged to have been caused by gross negligence on the part of the defendant company, employer of the deceased. Trial was to a jury, which, in response...

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