Musslewhite v. Gillette

MARTIN, Justice.

Appellee, Demory Gillette, and wife Beatrice Gillette, while driving from Port Isabel, Texas, to Lubbock, Texas, a distance of approximately 700 miles, collided with a trailer owned by appellant, Paul Musslewhite, and operated by appellant, Lloyd M. Fuller. The trailer, pulled by a truck tractor, was struck while making a left-hand turn off the Big Spring Highway onto the Forsan farm to market road. Beatrice Gillette, 56 years of age, was driving the Chevrolet automobile and the approach to the scene of the accident for several miles was a straight, level highway. The…