Buckley v. Gulf Refining Co.

JACKSON, Chief Justice.

L. W. Buckley, plaintiff, instituted this suit in the .district court of San Patricio County against the corporate defendants, Gulf Refining Company and Gulf Oil Corporation and the individual defendant, Ben Si .Collins, to recover, damages to the automobile of plaintiff and for personal injuries to himself which resulted from a collision between plaintiff’s automobile and the truck operated by defendants through their alleged agent and employee, Homer Young.

The plaintiff alleged that on or about October 4, 1935 the corporate defendants maintained and operated a…