Brown v. Kirksey

WALKER, Chief Justice.

On the 2nd day of December, 1938, about one mile east of the city of Nacogdoches, on highway No. 7, appellant, D. Brown, struck J. W. Kirksey with his automobile and killed him. This suit was filed by ap-pellees, Bertha Kirksey, for herself and as next friend of her minor brothers, James and Fritz Kirksey, children of the deceased, and the only surviving members of his family, for damages suffered by them by reason of the death of their father. Answering special issues, the jury found in favor of appellees on the acts of negligence and proximate cause plead by them…