Melvin Williams Construction, Inc. v. Salter

OPINION

DIES, Chief Justice.

On Labor Day, September 1, 1980, at approximately 11:20 p.m., one of the plaintiffs below, James Salter, was driving his father’s pickup in a northerly direction on FM 770, about one mile north of Ray wood, when his vehicle was in a collision with another pickup being driven by Junior Bryant traveling in the opposite or southerly direction. Richard Hopson was a passenger in the Bryant vehicle owned by Melvin Williams Construction, Inc. Salter and the widow of Hopson (on behalf of herself and their children) sued Williams (all plaintiffs took a dismissal as to…