City of Beaumont v. Baker

WALKER, Chief Justice.

On the 19th day of September, 1935, in the county court of Jefferson county at law, appellees, Charles E. Baker and wife, Myrtle Baker, recovered judgment against appellant, city of Beaumont, in the sum of $1,000, for injuries suffered by Mrs. Baker on the 25th of April, 1935, when she stepped into a hole in the 1100 block of Pope street, within the corporate limits of the city of Beaumont.

Appellees’ attorney filed with Raymond Edmonds, “city clerk of the city of Beaumont,” the following notice of Mrs. Baker’s injuries:

“Beaumont, Texas, May 8, 1935. To the Honorable City…