Garner v. Prescott

GRISSOM, Chief Justice.

As the result of a collision between an automobile driven by Roy Tripp and a truck driven by Jesse Lester Garner’s son, Thural Garner, Cecil Lee Prescott was injured and his wife and son were killed, while riding in Tripp’s automobile. Prescott brought suit for damages thus sustained. Prescott alleged that he and his wife and minor son were traveling from the South Plains of Texas to Oklahoma as the guests of Tripp; that, early one morning in February, Tripp was driving his automobile east when he came to a strip of pavement coated with ice; that they were traveling…