Security Transport Corp. v. Garcia

Appellant brings this appeal from a judgment entered on a jury verdict awarding damages to appellee.

The suit was brought by appellee for the wrongful death of her husband resulting from an intersectional collision between appellant’s truck and a truck being driven by the decedent. It was conceded that both appellant’s driver and the decedent were negligent (the former by speeding, the latter by running a stop sign), that the decedent’s negligence continued to the moment of impact, and that the case turned on the applicability of the last clear chance doctrine. The trial court submitted such…