Waldon v. City of Longview

BILL BASS, Justice.

This negligence case arose out of an auto accident between the Appellants and Rory Ben Cuellar, an on-duty Longview Police Officer. The trial court rendered judgment for the City on the jury’s verdict finding Waldon 65% negligent and the City of Longview 35% at fault.

Officer Cuellar was proceeding East on East Avalon Street in response to a burglary alarm. He overtook the Waldon automobile which was proceeding slowly East on East Avalon. The Waldons had mistakenly turned onto East Avalon a few moments before, and according to Officer Cu-ellar, seemed to be looking to the…