Texas Co. v. Betterton

Mr. Judge HICKMAN

delivered the opinion of the Commission of Appeals, Section A.

A. P. Betterton was killed on a street in Port Arthur in a collision between an automobile which he was driving and a truck belonging to plaintiff in error and being driven at the time by Knockout Brown, one of its employees. In the trial court Mrs. Amelia Betterton, his surviving wife, and Leslie Betterton, his minor son, were awarded $12,000 damages sustained by them on account of his death, apportioned as follows: $10,000 to Mrs. Betterton, and $2,000 to Leslie Betterton. The judgment of the trial court was…