Legal Opinion
Scurlock Oil Co. v. Smithwick
Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District
Decided April 19, 1990No. 13-88-493-CVPublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
DORSEY, Justice.
On December 9, 1982, at approximately 9:30 p.m., Joe Ernest Lewis was driving an eighteen-wheel tractor trailer for Scurlock Oil Company down a farm to market road when he left the road and collided with a Suburban, killing two of the Suburban’s passengers, George Smithwick and Clay Dove. The Suburban was owned and operated by Ronnie Wayne Bounds, d/b/a Victoria Carrier Service; Missouri Pacific Railroad (MoPac) had hired Bounds and his vehicle to transport some of its train crew members to a worksite.
The accident resulted in the filing of three separate lawsuits, one…
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- Pool v. Ford Motor Co.Texas Supreme Court · 1986
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- Cavnar v. Quality Control Parking, Inc.Texas Supreme Court · 1985
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3Cited by17 opinions
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- Cardenas v. Stowell (In Re Stowell)United States Bankruptcy Court, W.D. Texas · 1990
- Jones v. City of Houston, Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)1995
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