BELL CAB COMPANY v. VASQUEZ

No. 14694.

434 S.W.2d 714 (1968)

BELL CAB COMPANY, Inc., Appellant, v. Ascencion Gomez VASQUEZ et al., Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas. San Antonio.

Rehearing Denied November 27, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hubert W. Green, Jr., San Antonio, for appellant.

Frank R. Southers, Southers, Mendelsohn, Goldberg & Lyons, San Antonio, for appellees.


BARROW, Chief Justice.

This appeal relates primarily to the application of the humanitarianism or rescue doctrine. A judgment non obstante veredicto was entered whereby appellee Edward Vasquez recovered damages from appellant in the sum of $3,170, individually, for his medical expenses and loss of contributions, and in the sum of $25,000 as next friend for his nineteen-year-old son, Ascencion Gomez Vasquez, who was struck by one of appellant's taxicabs which was being...

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