Walters v. Southern S. S. Co.

GRAVES, Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment of the Eleventh district court of Harris county, entered non obstante veredicto, pursuant to R.S. art. 2211, as amended by Acts 1931, c. 77, § 1, Vernon’s Ann.Civ.St. art. 2211, wherein the appellant, a police officer for and under employment of the city of Houston at the time, was denied any recovery of damages against the appellee steamship company for its alleged negligence in having improperly left a dolly truck and steel plate out on the platform at night of one of the city’s docks at the Houston turning basin, which was under the control of…