Ramos v. Horton

OPINION

WARD, Justice.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment granted in favor of the defendant-ap-pellee in an automobile collision case. The trial court held that a former judgment and jury findings upon which it was based, which was in favor of the same appellee and which denied recovery to the appellant’s wife in a suit arising out of the same accident, operated as an estoppel by verdict or was res adjudicata to the present suit. We affirm the judgment of the trial court.

On September 16, 1967, the appellant, as the driver of his automobile and with his wife as a passenger, was involved…