Texas Portland Cement & Lime Co. v. Lee
Texas Supreme Court
Applications for writs of error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Fifth District. Action against the Texas Portland Cement and Lime Company for negligence, causing the death of A. G. Lee, brought by his widow, Pearl Lee, joined by the parents of deceased. All the plaintiffs were awarded damages. On defendants’ appeal the recovery by the widow was allowed to stand and that by the parents reversed.
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Applications for writs of error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Fifth District. Action against the Texas Portland Cement and Lime Company for negligence, causing the death of A. G. Lee, brought by his widow, Pearl Lee, joined by the parents of deceased. All the plaintiffs were awarded damages. On defendants’ appeal the recovery by the widow was allowed to stand and that by the parents reversed. Both the appellants and the parents of deceased, appellees, applied for writs of error.
1Opinion of the Court
GAINES, Chief Justice.
There are two applications for writs of error in this case—one by the appellant in the Court of Civil Appeals, and the other by two of the appellees.
The suit was brought by the wife, the father and the mother of A. G. Lee to recover of the defendant cement and lime company for injuries resulting in his death. A trial before a jury resulted in a verdice and judgment in favor of the wife, Pearl Lee, for $2500, and in favor of the father, A. G. Lee, and the mother, Mary Lee, each for $500.
The Court of Civil Appeals ■ first determined that the judgment as to Pearl Lee should…
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