Home Indemnity Co. v. Snowden

Minor W. Millwee, Justice.

Appellee, Robert B. Snowden, recovered a verdict and judgment against appellant, The Home Indemnity Company, for $8,533.85 which appellee had paid to settle a damage suit filed against him in the United States District Court of Arkansas by Mrs. Fred Lingner for the alleged negligence of appellee and his agents resulting in the death of Mrs. Lingner’s husband while working in a frozen food locker plant belonging to appellee at Wharton, Texas.

At the conclusion of all the evidence in the case appellant moved for a directed verdict in its favor on the grounds: (1) that…