DEANS v. ABERNATHY

No. 7462.

493 S.W.2d 535 (1973)

Joyce DEANS, Appellant, v. Gordon ABERNATHY, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Beaumont.

April 4, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Ballard and John O'Quinn, Kronzer, Abraham & Watkins, Houston, for appellant.

Russell Ramsey, Ramsey & Murray, Charles M. Bradshaw, Bradshaw, Foster & Lueders, Houston, for appellee.


DIES, Chief Justice.

This is a rear-end collision case where plaintiff below was driver of the lead vehicle. Parties are referred to herein as they were below. Trial was to a jury which convicted defendant of: failure to keep a proper lookout, which was a proximate cause of the collision; failure to make such application of the brakes as a person using ordinary care would have made, which was a proximate cause of the collision; and failure to make a turn of his vehicle...

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