Traders & General Ins. Co. v. West Texas Utilities Co.

STOKES, Justice.

In Dickens County, on August 30, 1938, about 9 o’clock P. M., Charles Jones, Jr. a minor about fifteen years of age, was riding in a truck that was being used by him and other employees of a road contractor in the construction of a highway. Some cows were grazing near a concrete bridge at the bottom of a depression and, shortly before they reached the bridge, E. E. Edwards, an employee of appellee, West Texas Utilities Company, who was coming from the opposite direction in a small truck belonging to appellee, reached the opposite elevation of the depression. The truck in which…