Southern Steel Company v. Manning

OPINION

JAMES, Justice.

This is a case wherein the Plaintiff-Ap-pellee Tom B. Manning suffered personal injuries as a result of having been thrown from a jeep on a deer hunt. Manning sued Defendant-Appellant Southern Steel Co. for damages growing out of an accident which occurred on or about November IS, 1970 at about 4:30 A.M. in the dark, when Manning fell from the rear of a jeep taking a hunting party to deer blinds on Riverbend Ranch in Kerr County, Texas.

Trial was to a jury which found:

No. 1: An agent, servant, or employee of Southern Steel failed to properly latch the tailgate as would…