Legal Opinion
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. v. Sims
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided March 12, 1981No. 17728PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PEDEN, Justice.
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, and the driver of its truck, J. C. Gonzales, appeal from a judgment rendered on jury findings awarding $65,582.70 to plaintiffs David Sims and Roy Sims in a suit arising out of a non-collisional accident at an intersection in Richmond, Fort Bend County.
The plaintiffs alleged that a Bell Co. truck driven by Gonzales negligently ran a stop sign and pulled out in front of a dump truck owned by Roy Sims and driven by his brother, David Sims, causing David to swerve and overturn to avoid a collision; that the accident resulted in damage to the…
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