Buchanan v. Central Freight Lines, Inc.

BATEMAN, Justice.

This is a suit for damages on account of the death of Lewis James Buchanan, alleged to have been proximately caused by the negligence of. appellee Central Freight Lines, Inc. and its driver. The appellants are the surviving wife, son and mother of Lewis James Buchanan. Buchanan was driving a 1962 two-door hardtop Chevrolet automobile, with three passengers, in a southerly direction on Interstate Highway 35 near Temple, Texas, when it collided with a van-type trailer attached to a tractor owned by Central Freight Lines, Inc. and operated by its employee, Harold L. Thompson.…