Wells v. Texas Pacific Coal Oil Co.

Mr. Judge Hickman

delivered the opinion of the Commission of Appeals, Section A.

In the trial court Mrs. Charles S. Wells was awarded damages against The Texas Pacific Coal & Oil Company, O. L. Fletcher and J. H. Jackson, on account of the death of her husband, Charles S. Wells, who lost his life in a collision between an automobile which he was driving and a gasoline truck belonging to Fletcher, a commission salesman for the oil company, and being operated at the time of the collision by Jackson. The case was submitted to a jury upon special issues, all of which were answered favorably to the…