Bernal v. Seitt

This suit for damages by our petitioners, Bernal and wife, as surviving parents of 18-year old Esau Bernal, is a “guest statute” [Article 6701b, Vernon’s Texas Civ. Stat.] action against the owner, and the estate of the deceased driver, of the passenger automobile in which Esau was killed as the result of a more or less “head-on” collision with a northbound truck on a curve of highway 277, about fifteen miles north of Del Rio, on the night of April 21, 1955, the passenger car being headed south on a pleasure jaunt at the time.

The principal questions presented to us are whether the jury…