Jones v. Gibson

HICKMAN, C..J.

The appeal is from a judgment for damages for personal injuries sustained by appellee from being struck by an automobile driven by appellants’ minor son. The first three propositions present that the court erred in failing to define “new independent cause,” a phrase used in the definition of proximate cause. Appellants timely objected to the charge on those grounds, the objection being in almost the identical words of the objection in the case of Robertson & Mueller v. Holden (Tex. Com. App.) 1 S.W.(2d) 570. Appellee confesses error unless the case can be distinguished from the…