Cases argued and decided in the Supreme Court of the State of Texas, during the latter part of the Austin term, 1884, and the Tyler term, 1884. Volume 62. Page: 121
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.:1 'CITY OF G sALVESTON V. POSNAINSKY. 121
Argument for the appellee.
fall, but by a cut from a glass bottle; that the crippled condition
was caused by the want of proper surgical aid; and upon these issues
the parties went to trial, and a verdict and judgment rendered
against the defendant for $10,000.
A brief filed by Hon. A. HI. Willie in 1876, and before his election
to the position of chief justice, cited for appellant the following cases
to show that in New England states neither towns nor cities are
under implied liability for injuries resulting from defective sidewalks
or streets: Oliver v. Worcester, 102 Mass., 488, 489; Chidsey v.
Canton, 17 Conn., 478; Reed v. Belfast, 20 Maine, 245, 248; Baxter
v. Turnpike Co., 22 Vt., 114; Providence v. Clapp, 17 How., 167;
Mower v. Leicester, 9 Mass., 247.
He cited, also: Russell v. Men of Devon, 2 Term R., 667; Mayor
of Lynn v. Turner, Cowp., 86; Henley v. Mayor of Lyme, 5 Bing.,
91; Gibson v.'Mayor of Preston, 5 Q. B., L. R., 218, 222; Lane v.
Colton, 1 Ld. Raym., 646; Whitfield v. La Despencer, 2 Cowp., 754;
Freeholders v. Strader, 3 Harr. (N. J. L.), 108; Cooley v. Freeholders
of Essex, 3 Dutch., 415; Livermore v. Board of Freeholders, 29
N. J., 245; Pray v. 'Mayor, 32 id., 394; Brinkmeyer v. Evansville,
29 Ind., 187; Duke v. Mayor, 20 Ga., 635; Richmond v. Long, 17
Gratt., 375; Prather v. Lexington, 13 B. Mon., 559; Western College
v. Cleveland, 12 Ohio St., 375; 12 La. Ann., 481; Daagan v.
Mayor of Mobile, 31 Ala., 469; Detroit v. Blackeby, 21 Mich., 84.
Jas. B. Stubbs, also for the appellant, filed an able argument for
a rehearing.
Waul & Walker, with Kilpatrick, for appellee, cited, on the right
to sue the city for the injury: Weightman v. Washington, 1 Black,
39; Nebraska City v. Campbell, 2 id., 590; Chicago City v. Robbins,
2 id., 418; Mayor v. Sheffield, 4 Wall., 184, 194; Barnes v.
District of Columbia, 1 Otto, 541, 551; Evanston v. Gunn, 9 id.,
600; 14 Gray, 541; Meares v. Commissioners of Wilmington, 9 Ired.,
80; Albrittin v. Mayor of Huntsville, 60 Ala., 486; S. C., 31 Am.
R., 46; O'Neil v. City of New Orleans, 30 La., 220; S. C., 31 Am.
R., 221; Dewey v. Detroit, 15 Mich., 309; Smoot v. Mayor, 33 Ala.,
69; Dayton v. Pease, 4 Ohio St., 80; Erie v. Schwingle, 22 Pa. St.,
384; Sterling v. Thomas, 60 Ill., 264; Blake v. St. Louis, 40 Mo.,
569; Rowe v. Portsmouth, 56 N. H., 291; Eastman v. Meredith, 36
N. H., 280; Parker v. Lowell, 11 Gray, 353; Vason v. Augusta, 38
Ga., 542; State v. Newark, 4 Dutch. (28 N. J. L.), 491; Memphis v.
Lasser, 9 Iumph., 757; Rochester W. L. Co. v. Rochester, 3 N. Y.,
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