Eastern Texas Electric Co. v. Hunsucker

This was a suit by the appellee, C. E. Hunsucker, against appellant, Eastern Texas Electric Company, to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by appellee as the result of a collision between one of appellant’s street cars and a fire truck owned and operated by the city of Beaumont, on November 9, 1922.

The substance of appellee’s petition as to the cause of the collision between the fire truck and the street car, which resulted in the injuries to him, was as follows:

That on the morning of November 9, 1922, about 8:15 o’clock, a fire broke out on Wall street, in…