McCarty v. Purser

NORVELL, Justice.

In the early morning hours of November 11, 1959, Captain Paul M. McCarty was standing beside his car in the parking lot of Bergstrom Air Force Base when he was violently struck by a Ford pickup truck driven by Mrs. Doris Purser. Mrs. Purser also had a car parked upon the lot some four parking spaces from the McCarty car. There were no automobiles in the spaces between the Purser and McCarty cars and Mrs. Purser was attempting to park within this area, when through misadventure, her foot slipped from the brake to the accelerator. She then “panicked”, to use her expression, and…