Ballard v. City of Fort Worth

CONNER, Chief Justice.

This appeal is from an instructed verdict and judgment in a suit instituted by appellant to recover damages in a large amount for injuries alleged to have been received by him while at work for the city in one of the pipes of the city’s sewer lines.

He alleged that he was inexperienced in such work, without knowledge of its dangers, and that, while doing that which he had been directed to do, he was seriously asphyxiated by noxious and poisonous gases generated in the pipe in which he was at work that proximately resulted in the injuries set forth in his petition.

Appellant…