Legal Opinion

Yanez v. Branch

Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District

Decided January 15, 1987No. 13-86-229-CVPublishedCited by 3 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

SEERDEN, Justice.

Appellant challenges a take-nothing judgment in a personal injury case. Appellant was a passenger in a car which collided with a truck belonging to L.S.T. Sales. A jury found that the truck driver failed to back his vehicle when such movement could be made with safety and without interfering with other traffic, and that this failure was a proximate cause of the occurrence in question. However, in response to Special Issue No. 3, the jury entered “0” in each slot for the amounts of compensatory damages. We affirm the trial court’s judgment.

By two points of error,…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Leyva v. PachecoTexas Supreme Court · 1962
  2. Gallegos v. CleggCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1967
  3. McInnes v. Yamaha Motor Corp., U.S.A., Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District1983
  4. Fuller v. FlanaganCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1971
  5. Hinojosa v. Castellow Chevrolet Oldsmobile, Inc., Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District1984

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3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Duron v. Merritt, Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District1993
  2. Balandran v. Furr's, Inc., Texas Court of Appeals, 8th District (El Paso)1992
  3. La Grange v. Nueces County, Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District1999

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