Wilkinson v. Lindsey

PITTS, Chief Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment for personal damages in the total sum of $5,517.50 for injuries received by a minor child late in the afternoon on December 16, 1956, as a result of an intersection collision between two automobiles occurring at a point where Quirt Avenue intersects McKenzie Freeway within the city limits of Lubbock, Texas. Appellee, Irene Lindsey, as the mother and next friend of Maxine Lindsey, a minor 16 years of age, filed suit against appellant, Robert Lee Wilkinson, for damages alleging that her daughter, while riding as a passenger in a Ford…