White v. Sullins

OPINION

DAVID FARRIS, Justice 1

This is a personal injury case in which a police officer, standing outside his patrol car, was struck by an intoxicated, hit and run driver. A jury found the driver, James Wesley White, negligent and awarded the plaintiffs, Daniel Sullins and his wife, actual and exemplary damages. On appeal White raises four points of error complaining the trial court erred in denying him both a comparative negligence submission, and a trial amendment raising comparative negligence, and there was no evidence or insufficient evidence to support either the jury’s finding of gross…