HARRIS COUNTY v. PATRICK

No. 9033.

636 S.W.2d 211 (1982)

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas, Appellant, v. Russell PATRICK, et al., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Texarkana.

April 27, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mike Driscoll, County Atty., David R. Hurley, Asst. County Atty., Houston, for appellant.

W. James Kronzer, Kronzer, Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Ballard & Friend, Houston, for appellees.


BLEIL, Justice.

This is a personal injury case. Harris County appeals from a judgment on a jury verdict awarding damages for injuries sustained by Felix Patrick when he fell on pipe laid by the County in a road drainage ditch.

Harris County urges three points of error. First, it contends that the trial court erred in determining that there was a conflict in the jury's answers as originally returned. We agree. We hold that only an apparent conflict actually...

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