City of Houston v. Torres

EVANS, Justice.

This personal injury suit was brought by the plaintiff, a postal carrier, to recover damages for an injury sustained while walking his mail route. The plaintiff alleged that he was injured when he walked across the street and stepped into an uncovered City of Houston water meter hole. The City of Houston brings this appeal from a judgment entered in favor of the plaintiff on the jury’s verdict.

In a single point of error the City contends the trial court erred in refusing to enter judgment in its favor because the evidence established, as a matter of law, that the plaintiff…