City of El Paso v. Pan American Supply Co.

SUTTON, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the 41st District Court of El Paso County awarding damages to the appellee occasioned by the running of surface water into the basement of a store building owned and operated by the appellee which damaged goods stored therein.

The trial was to a jury on the facts and the case submitted on special issues the answers to which, in the opinion of the trial court, were favorable to the plaintiffs, ap-pellee here. Pan American Supply Compa*743ny is a partnership owned and operated by a father and son, A. V. Sanchez and E. A. Sanchez. The plaintiff is…