Ford Motor Co. v. Maddin

RYAN, Judge.

Mrs. Stella D. Maddin and her minor son, Eugene Maddin, obtained judgment in the district court of McLennan county against the Ford Motor Company in the aggregate sum of $40,000 damages occasioned by the death of T. E. Maddin, husband of Stella and father of Eugene, which judgment was affirmed by the Court of Civil Appeals. 42 S. W.(2d) 165.

Plaintiff in error, the Ford Motor Company, was on Aügust 1, 1928, á manufacturer of Fords and Lincoln automobiles, and maintained a branch office in Dallas, where it assembled and sold such cars. D. C. Woods was head of the Lincoln ear…