Texas Public Utilities Corp. v. Martin

DUNKLIN, Chief Justice.

This appeal is by the Texas Public Utilities Corporation from a judgment against it in favor of W. T. Martin, for damages resulting to him from an injury which he alleged he. sustained in stepping into an' open water meter box maintained by the defendant on a sidewalk of one of the public streets of the City of Weatherford.

In answer to special issues, the jury before whom the case was tried found that defendant was guilty of negligence in the following particulars, each of which was the proximate cause of -the injury sustained by plaintiff when he stepped into the meter…