Apache Ready Mix Co., Inc. v. Creed

OPINION

BUTTS, Justice.

The primary issue in this case is whether the plaintiff mother can recover damages, both past and future, for mental anguish occasioned by injuries to her child.

On January 8, 1979, as Juanita Becky Creed drove her daughter, Alicia, to school, her automobile struck a steel cable stretched across Bandera Highway in San Antonio. Creed’s automobile was traveling about 45 miles per hour when it collided with the unmarked 30-foot cable stretched from one side of the highway to the other in front of her automobile. The cable extended from defendant’s lead concrete truck,…