Hopkins v. Pence

LANGDON, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from the District Court of El Paso County, wherein appellants, as surviving wife and children of Charles D. Hopkins, deceased, sought damages from appellee, Enoch Pence, defendant below, for the death of Hopkins resulting from a boat accident on Ascarate Lake, in El Paso County, Texas, on August 18, 1957.

On the trial the jury answered special issues to the effect that appellee did not commit any act of negligence proximately causing the accident complained of, but found that decedent was guilty of three separate acts of contributory negligence,…