First City National Bank of Houston v. Japhet

WERLEIN, Justice.

Appellee, E. C. Japhet, brought this suit against the executor of the Estate of C. M. Dow, Deceased, to recover for damages caused by Mr. Dow’s automobile to a tree, shrubbery and a brick wall on appellee’s premises located at the southwest corner of Kirby Drive and Del Monte in Houston, Texas. The evidence shows that Mr. Dow was driving his Cadillac in a southerly direction on Kirby Drive; that the car ran over a curbed grass plot, or island, on the west side of Kirby, such island separating traffic moving in a westerly direction into Del Monte from the traffic moving in an…