Eagle Trucking Co. v. Texas Bitulithic Co.

POPE, Justice.

The questions presented in this negligence action are whether the court of civil appeals correctly held that Johnnie Wesley Guin and Billy Wayne Peden proved Robert Fitch and Eagle Trucking Company were negligent per se, and whether the courts below were correct in their judgments that there was no evidence of vicarious liability on the part of two other parties.

Guin and Peden instituted the suit against Fitch and Eagle Trucking. Fitch and Eagle Trucking counterclaimed against Guin and Peden and also sued defendants United Drilling Company, Texas Bitulithic Company, and Norman…