Walker v. Texas Electric Service Company

OPINION

LANGDON, Justice.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment in an action for damages initiated by Dewey Edward Walker, Roy Schapansky, James D. Seaver, James T. Lewis, and Richard Hancock, arising out of an airplane crash which occurred at Mangham Field in Tarrant County, Texas, on July 21, 1969. Plaintiffs’ first amended original petition alleged five acts of negligence by the defendant, each constituting a proximate cause of the damages suffered by the plaintiffs. Alternatively, it was alleged that the erection, creation, and maintenance of defendant’s power line constituted a public…