City of Galveston v. Lebohm

TIREY, Justice.

Appellee brought this action against the City of Galveston to recover damages for injuries she received to her person while using a street in the city limits of Galveston, and alleged seven specific grounds of negligence, and alleged that each and all were a proximate cause of her fall and the injuries she sustained.

The jury in its verdict found substantially that appellee, while walking along the center of 57th Street, midway between Avenue Pl/2 and Q, struck her foot against a metal pipe protruding from the surface of 57th Street and was caused to fall; that the existence of…