Holmes v. Lawrence

SLATTON, Justice.

This suit was instituted in the Thirty-seventh District Court of Bexar County by Mrs. Ivy Holmes, a widow, Mrs. Lillie June, joined pro forma by her husband, R. C. Juñe, Mrs. Susie Blevins, joined pro forma by her husband, Jesse Blevins, Tom Lee Holmes and Jack Holmes, minors, by and through Mrs. Blevins and her husband, as next' friend, against T. M. Lawrence, Jr., doing business under the trade name of Lawrence McFarland Company, and Paul Burgess.

The suit was to recover for the death of John Harrison Holmes, alleged to have been killed on August 14, 1937, by a motor truck…