Dunn Bros. Pipe Line Contractors v. Caldwell

CODY, Justice.

This is a plea of privilege case growing out of an automobile collision, which occurred in Harris County on the Houston-Hempstead highway about 7:45 o’clock on the morning of October 12, 1948, between a sedan which belonged to, and was being driven by, E. B. Caldwell, and a truck and trailer which was loaded with heavy steel pipe, each pipe being 31 inches in diameter. Said truck and trailer belonged to' appellants (defendants), and upon the occasion in question was being driven by their employee in the course of his employment. Appellants seasonably filed their plea of…