Rankin v. Atwood Vacuum MacHine Co.

OPINION

ROBERTSON, Justice.

Kenneth L. Rankin appeals from a take nothing judgment rendered in his products liability suit. Rankin raises seven points of error, challenging the trial court’s submission of instructions regarding sole proximate cause and negligence per se, exclusion of testimony, and failure to grant a new trial based on newly discovered evidence. We affirm.

On the date of the accident forming the basis of the suit, Rankin and a co-worker, Russell Dougherty, were to retrieve a Coca Cola trailer. Either Rankin or Dougherty attached the trailer to the truck by use of a coupler…