Ramirez v. Salinas

FUNDERBURK, Justice.

Filemon Salinas and wife, whose fourteen year old son was killed by being run over by a truck driven by Octavio Lopez, brought this suit against Leon Ramirez, the owner of the truck, to recover damages for his death. Three grounds of negligence were alleged: (1) That the truck at the time it struck the boy was being driven along a public highway at an excessive, dangerous, and unlawful rate of speed — a speed of over 45 miles per hour; (2) that the truck was at the time being driven along a highway at night without any headlights, or lights of any nature whatsoever; and…