GARRETT v. CITY OF WICHITA FALLS

No. 16047.

329 S.W.2d 491 (1959)

C. H. GARRETT et ux., Appellants, v. CITY OF WICHITA FALLS, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Fort Worth.

November 20, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Smoot & Smoot, and Geo. A. Smoot, Wichita Falls, for appellants.

J. Walter Friberg, Guy H. McNeely and Frank Gibson, Wichita Falls, for appellee.


MASSEY, Chief Justice.

Mrs. C. H. Garrett sustained personal injuries when she stepped in a hole in the park strip between the sidewalk and curb near the county courthouse in Wichita Falls. The area is a part of the public domain of the City of Wichita Falls. By reason of said injuries Mrs. Garrett and her husband brought a suit for damages against the city. Trial was to a jury, and though finding the city to have been negligent the jury also answered special issues...

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