City of Houston v. Anderson

GRAVES, Justice.

This appeal is from a $7,500 judgment in favor of the appellees, John E. Anderson and wife, and against the appellant, city of Houston, entered by the Sixty-First district court of Harris county upon a jury’s verdict in response to special issues, as for permanent damage to their 807-foot strip of property abutting the west line of Scott street in that city, caused by the city’s having greatly widened and deepened a small ditch theretofore running along such property line. The special issues and the jury’s answers thereto were these:

“No. 1. Do you find from a preponderance of…