GOATES v. FORTUNE LINCOLN MERCURY, INC.

No. 6044.

446 S.W.2d 913 (1969)

Henry F. GOATES, Jr., Appellant, v. FORTUNE LINCOLN MERCURY, INC. and Pedro Ruiz, Jr., Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, El Paso.

Rehearing Denied November 19, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Orba Lee Malone and Sam Snoddy, El Paso, for appellant.

Scott, Hulse, Marshall & Feuille, Schuyler B. Marshall, El Paso, for appellees.


WARD, Justice.

OPINION

This is an intersection accident case. Suit was brought by Henry F. Goates, Jr., the appellant, who was driving his motorcycle on a through street. The appellee Pedro Ruiz, Jr., was driving a Mercury sedan on a stop street in the scope of his employment with appellee Fortune Lincoln Mercury, Inc. The case was submitted to a jury which found that the appellant failed to keep a proper lookout and that this was a proximate cause of the...

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