City of Houston v. Richardson & Southerland

REESE, Associate Justice.

Richardson & Southerland sued the city of Houston .in the County Court to recover damages in the sum of $450 alleged to have been sustained by reason of the destruction of the wall of a house which they were erecting for J. C. Hutcheson on his lot at the intersection of Washington and Third Streets in the city of Houston, and recovered judgment through the verdict of a jury for $300 from which the defendant appeals.

It is alleged in the petition, in substance, that appellant had constructed a pavement along Washington Street with a curbing along the street, the effect…