Herrin Transp. Co. v. Peterson

MONTEITH, Chief Justice.

This.action was brought by appellee, E. A. Peterson, for recovery of damages from appellant, Herrin Transportation Company, for personal injuries alleged to have been received by him in a collision between an automobile being operated by appellee and a truck owned by appellant.

On the trial of the case a jury found in answer to special issues submitted that at the time of the collision appellant’s truck was being operated' at a rate of speed in excess of that which a person of ordinary care and prudence would have operated it under similar circumstances; that the driver…