Crowell-Gifford Furniture Company v. Cloutman

This is an appeal by Crowell-Gifford Furniture Company, a Texas corporation, the appellant, from an adverse judgment in favor of Millard A. Cloutman, the appel-lee, in a slipping- and falling case. The judgment was in the district court of Jef-fferson County, and awarded damages in the sum of $14,250.

By its first point of error, appellant complains of the trial court’s action in overruling its motion' for continuance. The court overruled appellant’s motion for continuance, based on the absence- of Dr. Walter W. Glass, Jr. -Dr. Glass is a-physician who resides in Port Arthur, in Jefferson…