Reaves v. Brooks

CHAPMAN, Justice.

This is in lieu of our opinion announced on April 29, 1968.

On July 19, 1967, Sheldon Spencer, a truck driver employee for defendant, C. A. Reaves, of Collin County, Texas, was crossing Amarillo Blvd. East on Evergreen in the City of Amarillo when an automobile being driven by William Isaac Allen collided with the Reaves’ truck, striking it “ * * * right in front of the rear duals on the trailer” and about 20 feet from the front fender of the cab. Allen, the driver, and Wanda Lou White Brooks, a passenger in the Allen driven automobile, were killed by the impact. Suit was…