Sifford v. Waterworks Board of Trustees

This is a suit for damages arising from personal injuries, instituted by appellant against appellees waterworks board of trustees, and each member of the board of trustees, in his capacity as trustee. The trial court sustained a general demurrer to the petition on the ground, as stated by him, “because suit cannot be maintained against the Water Works Board of Trustees and the Trustees thereof as such.”

Attached to the petition is a first mortgage deed of trust given by the city of San Antonio to St. Louis Union Trust Company of St. Louis, Mo., on all of the property devoted by the city to the…