Farias v. Gaitan

POPE, Justice.

This is a personal injury suit and plaintiff, Cresencio Gaitan, was granted judgment against Daniel O. Farias for $13,000. The trial court rendered judgment for the plaintiff after it disregarded jury answers which found that plaintiff was contribu-torily negligent in failing to keep a proper lookout. Defendant urges that the court erred in disregarding answers when there was evidence which supported them, and also in affirmatively charging the jury that the defendant violated the traffic laws at the time of the injury.

Plaintiff, Gaitan, was on a city bus in Laredo, Texas. The…