Lewis v. Yaggi

McKAY, Justice.

This is an appeal in a personal injury suit on the grounds of jury misconduct and a conflict in the jury’s answers to special issues.

In the early morning of July 24, 1974, on a highway about four miles south of Palestine, a van collided with a Continental Trailways bus. Edwin M. Massengale, the driver of the van, was employed by the Robert L. Lewis Delivery Service making bulk delivery of newspapers. Ernest E. Yaggi was the bus driver, on a Houston-to-Texarkana route. Massengale was killed and Yaggi injured (primarily a broken knee) in the accident.

Yaggi and his wife brought…