Torres v. Duaine

OPINION

YOUNG, Justice.

This is an appeal from a take nothing judgment rendered after a jury trial against Virginia Torres, plaintiff below and appellant herein, in favor of Carl L. Duaine, defendant below and appellee herein.

Mrs. Torres, 79 years old at the time, was walking south along the west edge of Fourteenth Street in Kingsville, Kleberg County, Texas when she was struck by a pick-up truck being backed by Mr. Duaine toward the street out of an abutting parking area to the west of the street. The accident occurred in the early afternoon on a clear day on November 9, 1970.

The jury found…