Lillie Sales, Inc. v. Rieger

CHADICK, Chief Justice.

Early in the trial of this common law negligence action the subject matter of appellants’ first point of error developed. A highway patrolman who investigated the collision in question, a moving truck striking the rear end of a stationary automobile at an intersection, was under direct examination when counsel for plaintiffs in the trial court, appellees here, Betty Jo Rieger and husband, Harold Rieger, asked: “Did you issue a ticket of any kind as a result of your investigation?” Counsel for appellants, Lillie Sales, Inc., and Jimmie Dude Medford, the defendants in the…