Texas Power & Light Co. v. Stone

GRISSOM, Justice.

This suit was filed by Major C. Stone (hereinafter referred to as plaintiff) for $30,600 damages for alleged personal injuries claimed to have been proximately caused by the negligence of the defendants, Mayfield Company and Texas Power & Light Company (hereinafter called the Light Company).

The Light Company parked its work truck on- the west side of a street in the business district of Athens, Tex., with (it is alleged) a ladder resting upon a structure built over the bed of the truck and protruding out into the street; the plaintiff was repairing the roof of the cab of his…