Sumners Road Boring, Inc. v. Thompson

GREEN, Chief Justice.

Appellee J. O. Thompson, plaintiff below, following a jury verdict recovered judgment for damages in the sum of $53,-062.00 against appellant Sumners Road Boring, Inc., for personal injuries received in a rear-end automobile collision. From an order overruling appellant’s amended motion for a new trial, it has perfected its appeal to this court.

In answer to the only special issues submitted to the jury concerning responsibility for the accident, the jury found (1) that at the time of the occurrence made the basis of the suit, Mahler, appellant’s employee, failed to…