Southwestern Sewer Co. v. Cross

BLAIR, Justice.

This suit filed by appellee Mrs. Thurman C. Cross, for herself and as surviving widow and as next friend of their minor child, Billy Jean Cross, is for exemplary damages only for the death of Thurman C. Cross, which was caused by the walls of a ditch or shaft he was digging caving in and falling on him while he was working as an employee of appellant, Southwestern Sewer Company, a corporation, in connection with the repair by appellant of a sewage disposal plant for the town of Ballinger. Appellees alleged that actual damages accruing to them in the premises were covered by…