Harbin v. City of Beaumont

WALKER, Chief Justice.

On or about the 16th day of June, 1938, Walter L. Harbin, an employee of appel-lee, City of Beaumont, while working on Weiss street, in the City of Beaumont, in the course of his employment — filling up and repairing a hole in the street made by appellee, United Gas Corporation, in repairing its gas main — was run over while in the hole by M. D. Lee, and killed. Lee drove his truck across the hole, inflicting on Harbin serious injuries, from which he died June 23, 1938. This suit was filed in district court of Jefferson county by Henrietta Harbin, surviving widow of the…