Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Thomas

FUNDERBURK, Justice.

H. J. Thomas brought this suit against Phillips Petroleum Company to recover damages for injuries sustained by his wife, resulting from a collision between a gasoline tank truck, owned by defendant and operated by one of its employees, and a Chrysler automobile owned, and being driven, by W. S. Capps, in which plaintiff’s wife was riding.

*572In a trial by jury, the jury found three alleged grounds of actionable negligence against defendant’s employee, namely: (1) that he was driving the truck partly on the left side of the paved highway; (2) that he was driving the truck…