Bill Hendrix Auto Parts v. Blackburn

SAM D. JOHNSON, Justice.

This suit was brought by appellees, Homer L. Blackburn, and wife, Maudene Blackburn, seeking to recover damages for personal injuries allegedly sustained by Maudene Blackburn in a motor vehicle accident occurring August 15, 1966. The accident involved the automobile being driven by Maudene Blackburn and a pickup truck owned by the appellant, Bill Hendrix Auto Parts. A third vehicle was incidentally involved, that being an automobile being driven by Nan E. Thomas. The Thomas vehicle was struck in the rear by the Blackburn vehicle after it, in turn, had been forcibly…