Jimmie Guest Motor Co. v. Olcott

Olcott brought this suit in the county court at law of Harris county against the Jimmie Guest Motor Company, a copartnership composed of Jimmie Guest and R. J. Bordelon, and against the partners individually, to recover $700, the alleged damages to his automobile in a collision with appellants’ automobile at the intersection of La Branch street and Calhoun avenue in the city of Houston, on August 8,1928.

The case went to trial on appellee’s first amended original petition, in which it was alleged that the damage to his automobile wa,s occasioned by the negligence of appellants’ driver in…