Legal Opinion
Sanders v. Davila
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided December 31, 1979No. 9054PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
REYNOLDS, Chief Justice.
Plaintiffs, who suffered damages in a head-on vehicular collision, were granted a monetary judgment upon a jury verdict returned on a charge which contained an improper instruction imposing on defendants a greater burden of proof than permitted by law. Reversed and remanded.
The head-on collision occurred several miles north of Lubbock on 20 August 1974 at a point where U.S. Highway 87 is divided by a median into two roadways, each of which consists of two lanes for vehicular traffic moving in northerly and southerly directions. Just before the collision, a…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- State v. AddingtonTexas Supreme Court · 1979
- Farley v. MM Cattle CompanyTexas Supreme Court · 1975
- Empire Gas & Fuel Co. v. MueggeTexas Supreme Court · 1940
- Boaz v. White's Auto StoresTexas Supreme Court · 1943
- State v. TurnerTexas Supreme Court · 1977
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3Cited by12 opinions
- Kelley Gross v. Black & Decker (u.s.), Inc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1983
- Borden, Inc. v. Price, Texas Court of Appeals, 7th District (Amarillo)1997
- Line Enterprises, Inc. v. Hooks & Matteson Enterprise, Inc., Texas Court of Appeals, 7th District (Amarillo)1983
- TEXAS a & M UNIVERSITY v. Chambers, Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin)2000
- Agricultural Warehouse, Inc. v. Uvalle, Texas Court of Appeals, 5th District (Dallas)1988
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