Ford Motor Co. v. Maddin

Mr. Judge RYAN

delivered the opinion of Commission of Appeals, Section B.

Mrs. Stella D. Maddin and her minor son, Eugene Maddin, obtained judgment in the district court of McLennan County against the Ford Motor Company, in the aggregate • sum of $40,000.00 damages occasioned by the death of T. E. Maddin, husband of Stella and father of Eugene, which judgment was affirmed by the Court of Civil Appeals. 42 S. W. (2d) 165.

Plaintiff in error, the Ford Motor Company, was on August 1, 1928, a manufacturer of Fords and Lincoln automobiles and maintained a branch office in' Dallas where it assembled…