Todd v. La Grone’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions

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1. ““Appellants assert that the answer of the jury finding that deceased Mc-Cormack did not fail to observe the signs of the road, and the blinker light and the answer that he failed to keep a proper lookout are in irreconcilable conflict. We do not think so. The deceased could have observed all highway signs and markers and yet could have failed to keep a proper lookout with respect to persons traveling the east and west highway. It is the duty of the trial court to reconcile the findings of the jury unless they are destructive of each other. Traders & General Ins. Co. v. Ross, 131 Tex. 562 , 117 S.W.2d 423 . The issues do not destroy each other but are reconcilable. Lewis v. Martin, supra [Tex.Civ.App., 120 S.W.2d 910 ]; Townsend v. Young, Dist. Judge, Tex.Civ.App., 114 S.W.2d 296 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Howell v. Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company