City of Houston v. Howard

OPINION

SEARS, Justice.

G. Lynwood Howard, appellee, sued the City of Houston for personal injuries sustained when he fell off a ladder at Sam Houston Coliseum. After a jury trial, the trial court awarded Howard $316,526.53 in damages. The city appeals claiming, in seventeen points of error, that the issue inquiring about the city’s negligence was not supported by sufficient pleadings or proof, that the evidence was legally and factually insufficient to support the jury’s findings of proximate cause and damages, and that the jury’s failure to find contributory negligence was against the great…