Texas Co. v. Zeigler

This was an action for damages for the death of Otis E. Zeigler, a youth of seventeen, occasioned by a collision between an automobile, in which the plaintiff’s decedent was riding, and a gasoline truck, belonging to C. R. Moss, the local distributor for the Texas Company. It was at night and it was dark and misting. The truck was being driven at the time of the accident, February 14th, 1939, by Frank J. Moss, brother of C. R. Moss, who employed him as a truck driver. The automobile was being driven by a youth named Eddie Jewell. There were six occupants of the automobile, four of whom were…