After an eight-day trial, it seemed that a pair of grieving parents’ testimony helped sway a Dallas jury to award a $20 million verdict in a lawsuit over their son’s death after his bus ran him over, said plaintiffs attorney Charla Aldous.

The jury in Dallas County’s 298th District Court on Wednesday found that Greyhound Lines Inc. was negligent for the death, and awarded Brown’s estate and his parents, Paula Becker and Barron Brown, $20 million in compensatory damages, said a press release. The parents claimed the bus driver, Arthur Coley, wasn’t driving safely and had flaunted Greyhound’s safety policies and procedures.