Houston Lighting & Power Company v. Reed

COLEMAN, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment, entered by the trial court pursuant to the verdict of a jury, for the damage sustained by a small boy when he ran into the lid of a tool chest extending out from the side of a truck belonging to appellant.

The principal ground on which this appeal is based is that the trial court erred as a matter of law in refusing to hold that there was no negligence on the part of appellant that was a proximate cause of the injury sustained by appellee.

This suit was brought by Addie Mae Reed as next friend for her son, Larry C. Reed. At the time he…