RT Herrin Petroleum Transport Co. v. Proctor

This action arose from a truck-automobile collision which took place on State Highway No. 70 about four miles south of Sweetwater, Texas at approximately 7:00 o’clock on the evening *224of August 27, 1957. Orval H. Proctor and a woman companion were riding in the automobile. Both were killed. Mrs. Laura Proctor, the mother of Orval H. Proctor, a single man with no children, brought this action for wrongful death under Article 4675, Vernon’s Ann. Texas Stats. As defendants, she named Curtis Cleven Barron, the driver of the truck, and his employer, R. T. Herrin Petroleum Transport Company, the…