Kenny v. El Paso Electric Company

PRESLAR, Justice.

Appellant brought this action for injuries received as the result of having lifted a metal pipe into contact with a transmission line of appellee. The trial was to a jury, and both parties moved for judgment on the verdict. The court ignored certain findings of the jury and entered judgment that plaintiff take nothing.

Plaintiff, as appellant, assigns as error the action of the trial court in (1) entering a judgment on the verdict, and (2) disregarding the jury’s answers to Issues Nos. 3, 4 and 5.

In response to special issues the jury found (and for purposes of clarity the…