R. T. HERRIN PETROLEUM TRANSPORT CO. v. PROCTOR

No. A-7304.

338 S.W.2d 422 (1960)

R. T. HERRIN PERTROLEUM TRANSPORT CO. et al., Petitioners, v. Laura PROCTOR, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Denied October 14, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Pearson, Sweetwater, for petitioners.

Mays, Leonard & Moore, Sweetwater, Leachman, Gardere, Akin & Porter, Dallas, for respondent.


NORVELL, Justice.

This action arose from a truck-automobile collision which took place on State Highway No. 70 about four miles south of Sweetwater, Texas at approximately 7:00 o'clock on the evening of August 27, 1957. Orval H. Proctor and a woman companion were riding in the automobile. Both were killed. Mrs. Laura Proctor, the mother of Orval H. Proctor, a single man with no children, brought this action for wrongful death under Article 4675, Vernon's Ann. Tex...

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