Mason v. Ratcliff

BARROW, Chief Justice.

This is an apepal from a take-nothing judgment rendered on a jury verdict in a suit for damages sustained by appellant Melva Littlejohn who was injured when her automobile was struck by the automobile of appellee, Virginia Ratcliff. Miss Littlejohn was only twenty years of age when the suit was brought for her by her stepfather, Elton Mason, as next friend. At the time of the judgment she had become twenty-one years of age and this appeal is prosecuted in her own right, and she is hereinafter referred to as appellant.

Appellant was proceeding north on New Braunfels Avenue…