City of Houston v. Cambeilh

BELL, Chief Justice.

Appellee recovered judgment against appellant for $9,355 as damages resulting from injuries received by his wife, Mercedes Cambeilh, when she stepped in a hole in the crosswalk at the intersection of Main and McKinney Streets on September 28, 1953.

Since appellant attacks the verdict of the jury as being without support in the evidence and also as being contrary to the overwhelming weight and preponderance of the evidence, we must give a rather full summary of the evidence.

Mrs. Cambeilh testified that about 4:30 in the afternoon of September 28, 1953, she left Foley’s where…