City of Houston v. Fondren

This appeal is from a $17,000.00-judgment in favor of the appellee, Cleon E. Fondren, entered by the 127th District Court of Harris County, in response to a jury's verdict on special issues to the effect that the appellee had sustained damages in that sum, as the result of the negligence of the appellant-city's employee in causing a collision between one of its trucks and the automobile of the appellee, which at the time was being driven by himself.

In this court, while it splits them into several more, the appellant City urges but two controlling points of error, for a reversal:

The first one…