Motor Vehicle

Landscaper awarded for damages to irrigation control panel

On Jul. 21, a jury awarded $27,234 to a landscaping contractor that claimed a truck driver backed into its irrigation control panel at a job site and damaged it. Weigelt Enterprises, based in Austin, sued Mac Hauling for its driver who allegedly struck the control panel. The truck was loaded with rock and mulch. The defense argued that Mac's truck was involved in the incident. Other trucks came and went from the site that day, and the defense argued that one of them must have hit the control panel.

Weigelt Enterprises v. Cortinas, No. C-1-CV-14-005587