Eubanks v. Colbert

COLLINGS, Justice.

Geedie Colbert brought this suit against Ellis Eubanks for damages because of personal injuries alleged to have been sustained when the vehicle in which he was riding was struck by a police car owned by the City of Big Spring and operated by Eubanks, who at the time was on police patrol and in the course of his employment as a policeman. The case was tried before a jury which found that the defendant failed to have his police car under proper control, which failure was negligence and a proximate cause of the collision, and that the defendant was driving the car at an…