Triangle Truck Line, Inc. v. Kelley

WILSON, Justice.

Appeal from order overruling plea of privilege, in answer to which plaintiff’s controverting plea sought to hold venue under Subd. 9a, Art. 1995, Vernon’s Ann.Tex. Stats. Various acts and omissions of defendants were alleged to constitute negligence and proximate cause of plaintiff’s damages resulting from an automobile collision.

The court found from a preponderance of the evidence that defendants’ truck was being driven at an excessive rate of speed, that the driver failed to apply his brakes, and failed to turn the truck to the left; that this conduct was negligence…