Peden Iron & Steel Co. v. Claflin

This appeal is from a $20,000 judgment in the appellees' favor against appellants, entered both upon a jury's verdict in response to special issues submitted and upon independent findings of the court itself from the evidence, by the 80th District Court of Harris County, as for damages for personal injuries resulting to the appellee, Mrs. Claflin, from the negligence of the appellants in a collision between one of the appellants' trucks and Mrs. Claflin on the Air Line Road in Harris County, near its intersection with the Westfield Road, on November 10, 1938.

The truck, to which a trailer was…