McShane v. Cleaver

McMURRAY, J. pro tem. *

This is an appeal from a judgment entered upon a jury verdict against plaintiffs, after an eight-day trial. The action was one seeking damages arising from an automobile collision in the State of Texas.

The facts, viewed most favorably to respondents, reveal that appellants were west of Childress, Texas, traveling easterly at about 12 ¡30 p.m. on July 18, 1963, at 55 to 60 miles per hour, when they noticed respondents’ automobile traveling westerly on the same two-lane highway, some 40 to 100 yards ahead. Respondent Barbara L. Cleaver was driving the vehicle at the time…