TEXAS & PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. DAVIS

No. 5588.

374 S.W.2d 305 (1963)

TEXAS & PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY, Appellant, v. Vera DAVIS et al., Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, El Paso.

Rehearing Denied January 15, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McDonald Shafer, Gilliland & Davis, Paul McCollum, Odessa, Hill D. Hudson, Pecos, for appellant.

John J. Watts, Odessa, for appellee.


CLAYTON, Justice.

This is a railroad crossing case in which appellant appeals from an adverse judgment granted appellees for damages and injuries arising from a collision between a tractor and tank semi-trailer being driven by one Carl Davis (who was killed) and a passenger train of the defendant company at a crossing in Odessa, Texas on February 5, 1959. Trial was to a jury on special issues, upon the answers to which the trial court founded its judgment.

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