Haden Co. v. Riggs

LANE, Justice.

O. F. Bright was the owner of a certain truck which was, on the 6th day of November, 1929, loaded with shell belonging to the Haden Company and being driven by one Maurice Robertson upon and along a street in River Oaks, an addition to the city of Houston. While being so driven it struck and killed Jimmy Riggs, a negro boy about five years of age, the son of William Riggs. Said truck had on it a sign which read, “We haul for The Haden Co.,” or “The Haden Co.”

This suit was brought by William Riggs, father of the deceased Jimmy Riggs, against the Haden Company, a corporation, W.…