Shepard v. Ray

BATEMAN, Justice.

This is a rear-end collision case. The appellant Ronald Shepard sued the appellees J. E. Ray, doing business as Ray’s Delivery & Transfer, and James Frederic Dittman, alleging that Dittman, acting within the scope and course of his employment as an employee of Ray, negligently stopped Ray’s truck in a traffic lane of North Stemmons Freeway in Dallas, Texas, at night without burning the stop lights or parking lights of the truck or putting out flares or otherwise warning oncoming traffic of the presence of the truck in the traffic lane. He also alleged certain personal…