Legal Opinion
Texas Electric Cooperative v. Dillard
Texas Court of Appeals, 12th District (Tyler)
Decided July 20, 2005No. 12-01-00258-CVPublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
JAMES T. WORTHEN, Chief Justice.
Texas Electric Cooperative (“TEC”) and Stephen Bumstead appeal a judgment for damages awarded to Mary Dillard following a jury trial. TEC and Bumstead raise three issues on appeal. We affirm.
Background
On May 27, 1996, Bumstead was driving a TEC tractor-trailer rig loaded with utility poles from Jasper, Texas to Muenster, Texas. At approximately 10:00 p.m., while traveling westbound on two-lane U.S. Highway 175, Bumstead crested a hill overlooking the Neches River bridge. 1 As he crested the hill, Bumstead saw eight or nine cows wandering about on the…
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