Ford Rent Co. v. Hughes

LOONEY, Justice.

E. H. Roberts sued Ford Rent Company, Inc., et al., to recover damages for injuries to his wife, and to personal property sustained in an automobile collision alleged to have been occasioned by the negligence of defendants. The defendants answered that the wife of plaintiff (driver of one of the colliding automobiles) in several respects was guilty of negligence, proximately causing or contributing to the collision; also that the collision was due to an unavoidable accident. The case was tried to a jury in the Fourteenth judicial district court, Dallas county, presided over by…