City of Houston v. Selph

WERLEIN, Justice.

Dorothy Patton and husband, Charles G. Patton, and Martin B. Hawkins, plaintiffs, sued Carey I. Selph to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by them when the car driven by appellee, Selph, ran into the back of the Patton car which had stopped behind a line of cars that had come to a stop on Memorial Drive in the City of Houston. A police car belonging to the City of Houston and driven by one Cub-stead, a police officer, which had been following the Selph car about the same distance behind as the Selph car had been following the Patton car, ran into the rear of the…