Houston Electric Co. v. Schmidt

This appeal is from a $3,-000 judgment awarded John ¡Schmidt on a jury’s verdict for personal injuries received in a collision between the automobile he was driving and one of appellant’s street cars. The accident happened at night on the Harrisburg road within the city limits of Houston, the automobile being out-bound toward Harrisburg, the street car in-bound toward Houston. The car track was laid in that portion of the street customarily used by vehicles and the public generally, the outside rail being within about 2 feet of the ditch bordering the street on its south side. This placed the…