South Plains Ready-Mix, Inc. v. McDermett

PITTS, Chief Justice.

Appellee, J. W. McDermett, doing business as Liquefied Petroleum Gas Company, filed suit in the County Court against appellant, South Plains Ready-Mix, Inc., to recover alleged damages in the sum of $760 for cost of repairs necessarily made to his truck as a result of a motor vehicle collision. Appellee alleged that on or about August 1, 1952, his agent, R. T. Wilson, was operating appellee’s 1951 Ford F-8 tractor and trailer in a southerly direction on a public highway in Yoakum County and started to make a left turn therefrom, after giving a proper signal, when…