Blasberg v. Cockerell

LUMPKIN, Justice.

This is-an automobile collision case. On October 30, 1949, while the appellant, Lawrence Blasberg, was driving an automobile on U. S. Highway 66 about one and one-half miles east of McLean, Texas, his car was involved in a wreck with an automobile driven by the appellee, Edward E. Cockerell, Jr. As a result of the collision Don Rives, who was in the appellee’s car, was killed, and L. E. See, the other passenger, was badly hurt. Both of the parties, Blasberg and Cockerell, suffered serious injuries. It appears that the appellant was trailing a large truck going east; the…