Together with Donnie Lynn (a Waco attorney) and Lynn's brother Jeff Lynn, I had bought a piece of land which lay along a steep hillside. After I had gone to the land and cleared a path along the hillside, Jeff  came to the land to look it over and he began walking along the path.

Suddenly, as I stood atop the hill looking down at Jeff, the path crumbled beneath him and he fell down the hill. He continued falling and falling, the descent being much farther than I had originally estimated. He must have fallen the equivalent of a hundred stories and it was obvious he would be killed when he hit the bottom. I saw him crash and immediately knew he was dead.