Houston Oxygen Co. v. Davis

On August 25, 1939, in a collision on Highway No. 35, in Polk County, between a Chevrolet car driven by Sidney Lewis, in which Charles Applebhy, a minor, was riding as a passenger, and a truck owned and operated by Houston Oxygen Company, Inc., driven by Oliver R. Stanbury, appellants, Charles Applebhy received serious personal injuries, resulting in the loss of his arm and other injuries. On October 25, 1939, Pearl Davis, Charles Applebhy's mother, as his next friend and for herself, joined by her husband, Johnnie Davis, (negroes) filed this suit in district court of Polk county against the…