Cawthon v. Waco Fire & Casualty Insurance

Banke, Presiding Judge.

The Cawthons’ minor son, Robert, was struck and killed by an automobile while attempting to cross a heavily-trafficked highway in anticipation of boarding a school bus being driven by Ms. Margie Humphries. They brought suit against Humphries and her employer, the Baldwin County Board of Education, and also against the individual members of the Board and the Baldwin County School District, seeking to recover damages for the child’s death based on allegations that, in attempting to cross the highway prior to the arrival of the bus, he had been acting on instructions from…