City of Waco v. Teague

RICE, Chief Justice.

Based on the answers of the jury to special issues submitted, judgment was rendered in favor of Mrs. Bess Teague, a feme sole, and against the City of Waco for damages by reason of personal injuries which she sustained by falling on a public passageway in said city, and the latter has appealed.

By its first point appellant says that the evidence in this case raised the issue of “new and independent cause,” and the trial court, over its objection, erroneously omitted this essential element from its definition of the term proximate cause.

This contention is based upon the…