Scurlock Oil Co. v. Birchfield

BASS, Justice.

Appellee recovered judgment for $229,700 for personal injuries sustained while sanding an oil slick roadway.

In two points of error appellant urges that: (1) appellant owed no legal duty to appellee because appellee was not within the class of persons that the appellant had a duty to protect and, (2) appellant’s negligence in spilling the oil on the roadway had come to rest and appellee’s subsequent accident was an isolated, unforeseeable occurrence.

Appellee contends that appellant did owe a legal duty to him and that his injury was proximately caused by the appellant’s…