Stalder v. Bowen

WILLIAMS, Justice.

James L. Stalder brought this suit seeking damages for injuries to his wife, a pedestrian, who was struck by a truck owned by one of the defendants, and driven by its employee, as she crossed Cedar Springs Road at Hedgerow in the City of Dallas. Plaintiff based his action upon numerous acts of negligence on the part of defendants who, in turn, defended by alleging a number of contributory negligence acts on the part of plaintiff’s wife. The trial was to a jury and at the conclusion of the evidence a large number of special issues were submitted to the jury which was unable…