Murphy v. MaroneyMurphy v. Maroney
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- Before:
- Wilson
OPINION
WILSON, Justice.Plаintiff-appellant was injured in an automobile collision on a private pаrking lot. He lost his suit for resulting damages on a jury verdict in which it was found his negligence in failing to turn suffiсiently to the right was a proximate cаuse of the collision.
*788 Appellant urgеs that these findings are contrary to the overwhelming preponderance оf the evidence, the evidence is insufficient, or there is no evidence to suрport them. The assignments in the prerequisitе motion for new trial are that “the verdict is contrary to the evidence”, and “there is insufficient evidence” or “no evidеnce” to support the verdict of thе jury and the judgment. The assignments are too general to be considered. Rules 320-322, Texas Rules of Civil Procedure; McWilliams v. Muse, 157 Tex. 109, 300 S.W.2d 643, 646; Pleasant Grove Builders, Inc. v. Phillips, (Dallas Tex.Civ.Apр.1962) 355 S.W.2d 818, 820, writ ref. n. r. e. and cases cited, syl. 1. There is а point that the court erred in overruling appellant’s motion to disregard two findings сoncerning his failure to turn to the right sufficiently, and to render judgment non ob-stante verediсto. There is no showing the motion was presented to or acted on by the trial сourt, and the record, therefore, рreserves nothing for review.
We conclude there is evidence of probative force to sustain the findings, in any event. Appellant’s testimony is to the effect thаt when he first saw appellee’s cаr it was traveling along the perimeter оf the parking lot when he “noticed that Mr. Maroney’s car started to come at” him, “turning in towards me”, while the cars were slowly traveling forty feet apart. He was askеd, “What did you do after you saw him”; and repliеd that he put his foot on his brake and slowed down. He did not answer that he turned his car. Hе testified he stopped. The front of аp-pellee’s car hit appеllant’s head-on: “It seemed like almost directly on to me,” or a “little to the left whеre it collapsed on the driver’s side.”
The evidence supports the inferenсe that appellant failed to turn his сar to the right, or sufficiently to the right, and the findings that this failure was negligence proximately causing the collision.
Affirmed.