Valencia v. Western Compress & Storage Co.

GRISSOM, Chief Justice.

Juanita Valencia, acting for herself and as next friend of her minor children, sued Western Compress & Storage Company for exemplary damages as a result of the death of her husband, T. G. Valencia, which, plaintiffs alleged, was caused by the gross negligence of said corporation. Plaintiffs alleged T. G. Valencia was caught in the defendant’s cotton press and killed as a result of the defendant’s gross negligence (a) in failing to have a signal system that would warn its employees of movement of the press; (b) in having an operator whose eyesight was not good and whose…