Mundy v. Pirie-Slaughter Motor Co.

HALL, Justice.

Appellant J. E. Mundy, a Texas State Highway employee, sued appellee Pirie-Slaughter Motor Company, a corporation, in the 96th District Court of Tarrant County, Texas, for property damages and personal injuries sustained when the automobile of appellee, driven by its employee, James Oscar Dixon, a colored boy 18 years of age, struck the rear of appellant’s tractor while appellant was mowing grass on the shoulder and bar ditch of Highway 80 between the cities of Fort Worth and Dallas in Tarrant County, Texas. The State Highway Department filed its intervention to recover the sum…