Lewis v. Merrill

McDONALD, Chief Justice.

Plaintiff Merrill sued defendant Lewis for damages for personal injuries and truck damage, resulting from a collision of a truck belonging to defendant with a truck owned and operated by plaintiff. Trial was to a jury, which, in answer to Special Issues, found that: 1) Defendant was negligent in several particulars; 2) each act of defendant’s negligence was a proximate cause of the collision; 3) plaintiff was operating his truck at a slower rate of speed than an ordinary prudent person, in the exercise of ordinary care, would have operated such vehicle; 4) such was a…