Peveto v. Smith

COMBS, Justice.

Mrs. Iva Smith, a widow sued appellants, Arias Peveto and H. B-. Jackson, as defendants’ for $30,578.35 actual damages and $10,000 exemplary damages, on account of the death of her son Charles Olen Smith, which occurred as the result of injuries sustained by him on April 22, 1936. The accident in which he was injured occurred on the viaduct or approach of the Neches River Bridge, near Beaumont in Jefferson county.

In their petition the plaintiff alleged: “That on or about April 22, 1936, at or about the hour of six thirty o’clock P. M., the said Charles Olen Smith, now deceased,…