ARMSTRONG v. WEST TEXAS RIG COMPANY

No. 5397.

339 S.W.2d 69 (1960)

K. R. ARMSTRONG and wife, Alice Armstrong, Individually and as Next Friend, etc., Appellants, v. WEST TEXAS RIG COMPANY, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, El Paso.

Rehearing Denied October 5, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Watts, Odessa, for appellants.

Turpin, Kerr Smith & Dyer, Wm. Monroe Kerr, Midland, Ken G. Spencer, Crane, for appellee.


LANGDON, Chief Justice.

This is a suit brought under the Wrongful Death Statute, Vernon's Ann.Civ.St. art. 4671, growing out of a rear-end collision in which Fred L. Porter the husband of Mrs. K. R. Armstrong, lost his life. Mr. Porter ran into the rear end of appellee's tractor-trailer float while both were proceeding north toward Odessa, on the Crane highway. The jury found damages in the sum of $150,000, but also found the accident to have been caused by several...

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