Ford Motor Co. v. Whitt

HALL, Chief Justice.

This case and the case of Employers’ Liability Assurance Corporation, Ltd., v. Maude Mills et al., No. 4376 (Tex. Civ. App.) 81 S.W.(2d) 1028, heretofore decided on March 18, 1935, grew out of the same incident.

On the 12th of October, 1932, while the negro, Mills, was driving the Ford panel car, as shown in cause No. 4376, after leaving the city of Dalhart traveling toward Texline on highway No. 5, he collided with a Buiek automobile driven by Mrs. A. N. Washburn, in which Mrs. Whitt, the wife of plaintiff, was seated. The result of the collision was that Mrs. Whitt was…