EDWARDS v. HOUSTON TRANSIT COMPANY

No. 3721.

342 S.W.2d 787 (1960)

B. C. EDWARDS, Appellant, v. HOUSTON TRANSIT COMPANY et al., Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Waco.

Rehearing Denied January 19, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jim S. Phelps, Houston, for appellant.

Baker, Botts, Andrews & Sheperd, Alvin M. Owsley, Jr., Houston, for appellees.


TIREY, Justice.

This is a negligence case. The jury, in its verdict, found substantially:

(1 and 2) That the bus driver failed to keep that lookout for cars ahead of him that an ordinary prudent person in the exercise of ordinary care would have kept under the same or similar circumstances, and that such failure was a proximate cause of the collision in question;

(3 and 4) That just prior to the collision in question the bus driver was following more...

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