Hulsey v. Patterson

STOKES, Justice.

This is a suit for damages growing out of a collision between a motor truck owned and operated by appellee and an automobile owned by appellant. The record discloses that on the 20th of August, 1937, at a point in Floyd County, some three or four miles northwest of Floydada, late in the evening, appellee was driving his truck from Lockney to Floydada. There were three other persons with him in the truck and, upon reaching the point indicated, his gasoline became exhausted and the motor of his truck stopped. Upon discovering he was out of gasoline, appellee steered the vehicle…