Barker v. Harrison

OPINION

EVANS, Chief Justice.

The appellee, Mary E. Harrison, sued the appellant, Ronnie Eugene Barker, to recover damages resulting from an automobile accident. After a non-jury trial, the court awarded the appellee the sum of $5,676.68.

The accident occurred on a misty evening in May 1983. The appellant lost control of his truck, which skidded into the appellee’s vehicle on her side of the street. The ap-pellee’s vehicle then proceeded headlong into a ditch, and she was thrown against the dashboard or steering wheel.

In the appellant’s first two points of error, he challenges the legal and…