Louder v. De Leon

OPINION ON APPLICATION FOR WRIT OF ERROR

This is a negligence case which arose out of an automobile collision. The trial court rendered a take-nothing judgment based on jury findings that plaintiff De Leon was 85% negligent. The court of appeals reversed and remanded, holding that the trial court erred by (1) overruling objections to the state trooper’s testimony that De Leon’s failure to yield the right-of-way was a proximate cause of the accident, and (2) overruling plaintiff De Leon’s motion for mistrial when a state trooper testified that De Leon received a traffic citation. 743 S.W.2d…