Slade v. Phelps

DUNAGAN, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment granted the defendants below. Claude Otho Gary and Mary Slade, a widow, brought suit in the 99th District Court of Lubbock County, Texas, against Donald Edwin Phelps and Pat Mills, d/b/a Pat Mills Plumbing Company, for alleged personal injuries and property damage resulting from a vehicle collision in Lubbock, Texas, on March 18, 1967.

Appellees (defendants below) filed their motion for summary judgment. After severing the cause of action of Claude Otho Gary and that of Mary Slade, the trial court granted appellees’ motion for…