Schneider v. Delavan

SMITH, Chief Justice.

Paul Schneider, en route at night, in his car, from Seguin to San Antonio, pulled over to his right and parked his car partly on the paved lane of the highway, to adjust his car lights, which had gotten out of order.

Aubrey Delavan, a fifteen-year-old boy, driving his car along the same way at a speed found by the jury to have been in excess of forty-five miles per hour, ran his car into the rear end of Schneider’s car and careened around against Schneider, who at the moment of the impact was standing alongside his own car, with one foot on one of its running boards. As a…