City of Vernon v. Lisman

Mrs. Hazel Lisman, for herself and as next friend of her minor children, sued the city of Vernon to recover damages for the death of H. M. Lisman, her husband and father of the minor children, for negligence of the city. The trial court sustained a general demurrer to the plaintiff’s petition, and that judgment was reversed, and the cause remanded by the Court of Civil Appeals.

The petition in great detail alleged negligence in respect to creating and maintaining in one of the public streets a hole or excavation where water drained and mud accumulated, into which the car in which the deceased…