Bryan v. Lykes

CHAPMAN, Justice.

This is an appeal by W. E. Bryan and Lindsey Hoffman, a partnership, DBA Bryan & Hoffman from a judgment awarded Roy L. Lykes based upon a jury verdict in a personal injury case.

Appellants are road construction contractors and were in the process of constructing a hard surface upon Farm To Market Road *417No. 1585 in Hockley County at the time the injuries were received by appellee for which the jury rendered the verdict forming the basis of the court’s judgment appealed from herein.

Appellants had unloaded caliche from dump trucks along the road during the 29th day of May, 1959,…