Smith v. Central Freight Lines, Inc.

OPINION

ELLIS, Justice.

This is an appeal from a personal injury suit arising out of a rear end collision. Appellant Lois Smith was attempting to turn left from Highway 6 into her driveway when she was hit from the rear by a truck driven by appellee Robert James Ker-sey while in the course and scope of his employment for appellee Central Freight Lines, Inc. The accident occurred on a four-lane highway between Navasota and College Station. Mrs. Smith and her husband, who was not in the vehicle, sued appellees for negligence and gross negligence, and the case was tried to a jury. Although the…