Airline Motor Coaches, Inc. v. Parks

MURRAY, Justice.

Ira Parks was killed when struck by a bus of Airline Motor Coaches, Inc., on the Humble Road near Houston, in Harris County, Texas. He was crossing the highway afoot, going toward a Houston bound bus stopped on the opposite side of the 'highway, and the bus which struck him was proceeding out of Houston on the side of the highway nearest him. The fatal accident took place in front of or nearly in front of Pettigrew’s store, at a place where there were a few small business houses, and where it was not unusual for pedestrians •to cross the highway. Parks approached the paved…