Gaber Co. v. Rawson

CIRE, Justice.

Defendant appeals from a judgment for plaintiff in a wrongful death action.

This suit arises out of a multiple-vehicle accident in which Bryan Rawson was killed. At about 1:00 p. m. on December 9, 1970, a truck traveling northeast on Houston’s Southwest Freeway dropped a number of boxes containing lavatories onto the freeway. The truck did not stop. Shortly thereafter, cars encountering the boxes slowed to avoid hitting them, resulting in a four-car collision. The third ear in line, driven by the decedent, was hit by a large truck owned and operated by Containerized Refuse…