City of Beaumont v. Wiggins

O’QUINN, Justice.

Mrs. Frank Wiggins joined by her husband, Frank Wiggins, sued the City of Beaumont to recover damages resulting from alleged personal injuries suffered by Mrs. Wiggins on August 28, 1937, by reason of a fall which it was alleged was occasioned by a defect in the pavement in block 1100 of Elgie Street in said city. Plaintiffs, among other things, alleged that on the occasion in question, while crossing the street she stepped into a hole which caused her to fall, causing her serious injuries. The trial was to a jury upon special issues upon the answers to which judgment was…