Edwards v. Houston Transit Company

TIREY, Justice.

This is a negligence case. The jury, in its verdict, found substantially:

(1 and 2) That the bus driver failed to keep that lookout for cars ahead of him that an ordinary prudent person in the exercise of ordinary care would have kept under the same or similar circumstances, and that such failure was a proximate cause of the collision in question;

(3 and 4) That just prior to the collision in question the bus driver was following more closely behind the plaintiff’s automobile than a person of ordinary prudence in the exercise of ordinary care would have done under the same or…