J. Wigglesworth Co. v. Peeples

OPINION

SAM J. DAY, Justice.

J. Wigglesworth Company and William Kirby (“Appellants”) appeal from an adverse judgment rendered in favor of Michael Pee-ples. A jury found Kirby twenty percent liable for injuries Peeples incurred when a truck driven by a third party hit Peeples’s vehicle. Peeples appeals from the trial court’s remittitur of damages. We reverse and render in part and affirm in part.

I. BACKGROUND

This appeal involves a tracking accident that occurred September 20,1994, at the end of a traffic backup caused by Kirby. Kirby, a truck driver for J. Wigglesworth Company, was traveling…