Dixie Gas & Fuel Co. v. Jacobs

This was an action by appellee Luberta Jacobs, joined by her husband, Phil Jacobs, against appellant, Dixie Gas Fuel Company, for damages for personal injuries. Upon trial to a jury judgment was rendered in favor of appellees for the sum of $8,000.

Appellees alleged that on Christmas night, December 25, 1930, while driving south on Center street in Beaumont, at the north intersection line with Gladys street, they drove their car into a wide and deep hole executed by appellant which it had negligently left uncovered and unguarded, resulting in serious and permanent injuries to Luberta. The…