Texas Electric Service Co. v. Kinkead

The Texas Electric Service Company has appealed from a judgment against it in favor of L. D. Kinkead for $25,000 as damages resulting from an injury sustained by him when struck by a Ford truck driven by Fred K. Everetts in the city of Wichita Falls while he was engaged in the sale of washing machines owned by the defendant. The suit was based upon allegations of negligence of the driver of the truck in operating the machine at a dangerous rate of speed and in failing to sound the horn of his machine as he approached the place where the accident occurred.

There were findings of the jury…