Gilbert v. Haigler

WERLEIN, Justice.

This is an appeal by Jack Gilbert, d/b/a Gilbert Plumbing Company, from a $35,-000.00 judgment against him in favor of ap-pellee, Gerald T. Haigler. Based on the jury verdict the court decreed that Haigler take nothing as against the defendants, San Jacinto Glass Company of Houston and Joe Walton, collectively referred to herein as Walton.

The evidence shows that about 8:30 o’clock a. m. the Haigler 1/2 ton truck, which had been traveling in a westerly direction in Houston on Old Spanish Trail, had come to a stop in the 1900 block thereof about 6 or 7 feet behind an automobile…