Socony Mobil Oil Company, Inc. v. G. C. Taylor, as Next Friend of Katherine Taylor and J. P. Sharp, as Nextfriend of Claudia Sharp

GRIFFIN B. BELL, Circuit Judge:

This appeal is from a judgment entered on a jury verdict for plaintiffs-appellees in a diversity suit for damages sustained when the automobile in which they were riding was struck from the rear by an automobile owned by appellant Socony Mobil Oil Company, Inc. The automobile was being driven at the time by Gilbert Jurenka, Socony Mobil’s production foreman in Andrews, Texas.

Miss Taylor was driving an automobile on a street in the City of Andrews. Miss Sharp was a passenger in the vehicle. Miss Taylor signalled for a left turn and stopped to await a break in…