City of Houston v. Lurie

The City of Houston, a home rule city, files this suit for judgment declaring two wooden buildings owned by respondent, Mrs. Aneeth P. Lurie, in the City of Houston, to be serious fire hazards to life and property and ordering their abatement by demolition. The jury, in answer to special issues submitted separately as to the two buildings, found that the two story building constitutes a serious fire hazard to life and property but that it can be repaired so as no longer to constitute a serious fire hazard, without undertaking repairs amounting to a substantial reconstruction of the building;…