HINOJOSA v. STEPHENS

No. 406.

461 S.W.2d 232 (1970)

Jimmie HINOJOSA, Appellant, v. Kenneth Wayne STEPHENS, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Houston (14th Dist.).

Rehearing Denied December 16, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert C. Barnett, Talbert, Giessel, Barnett & Stone, Houston, for appellant.

James Perdue, Miller, Gann & Perdue, Houston, for appellee.


BARRON, Justice.

This is an automobile collision case involving an application of the doctrine of discovered peril.

The trial court submitted issues of fact to the jury who found that Jimmie Hinojosa, the defendant, was guilty of negligence proximately causing the accident in four particulars but found that the plaintiff, Kenneth Wayne Stephens, parked his automobile where a person of ordinary prudence would not have parked and that such parking was a proximate...

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