Houston Electric Co. v. Schmidt

This appeal is from a $10,-000 judgment awarded appellee, a child about four years of age, on a jury’s verdict, for personal injuries received in a collision between the automobile in which she was riding with her father, mother, and others and one of appellant’s street cars. The accident happened at night on the Harrisburg road, within the city limits of Houston, the automobile being outbound towards Harrisburg, and the street car inbound towards Houston. The car track was laid in that portion of the street customarily used by vehicles and the public generally, the outside rail being within…