JOHN W. SIMMONS TRUCKING COMPANY v. Briscoe

HALLEY, Justice7

This action arose out of a rear end collision between an automobile owned by plaintiff and driven by his wife and a truck driven by defendant, Thompson, and owned by the J. W. Simmons Trucking Company. There is no great dispute as to the facts. Mrs. Briscoe, who lived near Hess, Oklahoma, which was a short distance south of Altus, was driving north on the Main Street of Altus, with a neighbor, Mrs. Lollar, in her husband’s Ford automobile. As Mrs. Briscoe approached the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railway Company tracks she saw a signal light flashing so she stopped a short distance…