Armstrong v. West Texas Rig Company

LANGDON, Chief Justice.

This is a suit brought under the Wrongful Death Statute, Vernon’s Ann.Civ.St. art. 4671, growing out of a rear-end collision in which Fred L. Porter the husband of Mrs. K. R. Armstrong, lost his life. Mr. Porter ran into the rear end of appellee’s tractor-trailer float while both were proceeding north toward Odessa, on the Crane highway. The jury found damages in the sum of $150,000, but also found the accident to have been caused by several acts of negligence on the part of Fred L. Porter, the deceased, and on the part of appellee’s driver, Loren Johnston. The trial…