STANLEY v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY

No. B-2452.

466 S.W.2d 548 (1971)

Velma Eloise STANLEY, Petitioner, v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Denied June 2, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kilgore, Cole & Garrett, W. W. Kilgore and Emmett Cole, Jr., Victoria, Robert S. Pieratt, Houston, Thomas R. Bell, Edna, for petitioner.

Anderson, Smith & Null, Joseph P. Kelly and Conde N. Anderson, Victoria, for respondents.


GREENHILL, Justice.

This action arose out of an intersection collision between an automobile and a Southern Pacific train. Trial was to a jury; and based on certain jury findings, judgment was entered for the plaintiff. The main question here is whether there is evidence to support the answers of the jury to the findings upon which the judgment rests. The court of civil appeals, finding no evidence to support the jury's verdict, reversed the judgment of the trial...

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