Brown v. Vanderveer

HUGHES, Justice.

This is a rear end automobile collision case. Mrs. Edna L-. Brown, appellant, was the operator of a 1932 Chevrolet automobile which when stopped for a red signal light at the intersection of North Third Street and French Avenue in Temple, Texas, on November 22, 1967, was rear-ended by a 1959 Ford automobile driven by appel-lee, seventeen year old Miss Brenda Jane Vanderveer. Mrs. Brown and her husband brought suit for property damage and damages for personal injuries to Mrs. Brown. The case was tried to a jury which found appellee guilty of negligence proximately causing the…