F. L. Johnson v. Empire MacHinery Company

RIVES, Circuit Judge.

Appellant sued under the community property laws of Texas for damages resulting from personal injuries to his wife in a motor vehicle collision. At about 11:30 a.m. on January 7, 1956, appellant was driving his 1953 Cadillac south on North Grant Street in Odessa, Texas, between 17th Street and 16th Street. North Grant was a four lane street, two lanes for southbound traffic and two lanes for northbound traffic. Appellant’s car was in the left-hand lane for southbound traffic, next to the center line. About the middle of the block, the car immediately ahead of appellant’s…