Walker v. Missouri Pacific Railroad Company

BARRON, Justice.

This is a damage suit resulting from a rear-end collision. Appellants, Wesley D. Walker and wife, Marilyn Walker, sued Missouri Pacific Railroad Company for damages sustained in an automobile accident on January 31, 1964. Appellants were stopped for a left turn at Almeda and Mow-ery Streets in Houston, Texas, when a 1960 Chevrolet station wagon struck them hard from the rear. The vehicle of defendant, Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, was being operated at the time by James Douglas Hope, an employee of the appellee, who was at the time within the scope of his employment by…