Southland Greyhound Lines, Inc. v. Richards

PELPHREY, Chief Justice.

About 4 o’clock on the morning of May 13, 1933, appellee and his son were riding in a truck along highway No. 80, coming toward El Paso, Tex. A bus belonging to appellant was going in the same direction behind the truck. At a point before reaching the town of Fabens, Tex., the bus ran into the rear-of the truck, and both the truck and bus went off the highway. The truck came to a stop *273with its front end in a sand dune with the hus immediately behind it. The truck was in high gear and its headlights burning dimly when a county highway patrolman arrived on the scene…