Allied Van Lines, Inc. v. Parsons

LA PRADE, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment for damages in a personal injury action and an order denying defendants’ motion for a new trial. Plaintiff, a driver of a Greyhound bus, was injured when a tractor-trailer combination, driven by defendant Moore, employee of defendant Dallas Transfer and Terminal Warehouse Co., crossed the center line of State Highway 86 and collided with plaintiff’s oncoming bus. Prior to the accident it had been raining and the highway at the point of collision was wet and slick. According to several disinterested witnesses the truck was attempting to…