CITY OF HOUSTON v. RENAULT, INC.

No. B-408.

431 S.W.2d 322 (1968)

The CITY OF HOUSTON, Texas, Petitioner, v. RENAULT, INC., et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Denied October 2, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William A. Olson, City Atty., Homer T. Bouldin, Trial Supervisor, Carrol R. Graham and Herbert M. Beazley, Asst. City Attys., Houston, for petitioner.

Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons, R. B. Cousins, Dallas, Painter & Painter, James R. Roos, Houston, Greenhill & Speyer, Simon Greenhill, New York City, for respondents.


WALKER, Justice.

Renault, Inc., Renault Distributors, Inc., and Hughes-Peters, Inc., as successor to Sterling Motors, Inc., brought this suit against the City of Houston, Southern Pacific Railroad and Port Terminal Railroad to recover damage caused to 1,620 Renault and Peugeot automobiles and trucks by the impounding of surface waters on the land where the vehicles were stored. The trial court rendered judgment on the jury verdict that the plaintiffs take nothing...

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