Legal Opinion
USA Truck, Inc. v. West
Texas Court of Appeals, 6th District (Texarkana)
Decided April 6, 2006No. 06-04-00086-CVPublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Opinion by Justice ROSS.
Patricia West filed a wrongful death lawsuit against USA Truck, Inc., and Donald Ray Jones, Sr., for damages arising from a vehicle accident resulting in the death of her son, Nathan Gary Condor. A jury awarded actual damages of $500,000.00 against USA Truck and Jones, and $750,000.00 in punitive damages against Jones only. The trial court, in accordance with the jury’s comparative negligence findings, reduced the amount of actual damages to $350,000.00, plus pretrial interest, and left the amount of punitive damages undisturbed. The parties later settled the…
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