Court Opinion

ID: 9591592
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 00:05:40.952177+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:02:33.610485
License: Public Domain

KIKER, Justice (concurring specially). I concur in the result. My reason for so doing is that, after what I think is a very careful search of the record, I do not find sufficient evidence to support a prima facie casé that defendant’s negligence was the proximate cause of plaintiff’s injuries. I think that the first ground of the motion made by defendant should have been sustained; I think it may well be that it was on that ground that the trial judge sustained the motion for a directed verdict. I am in serious doubt that defendant’s truck driver, if defendant had a truck at the place of injury, was a special employee of Howard P.’ Holmes Drilling Co.