Harris County v. Smoker

How courts have described this case

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• holding trial court did not abuse its discretion by not including mitigation instruction in charge when defendant “did not present any evidence of an amount by which Smoker’s damages were increased by her alleged failure to mitigate”
• holding trial court did not abuse its discretion by not including mitigation instruction in charge when defendant “did not present any evidence of an amount by which Smoker’s damages were increased by her alleged failure to mitigate”
• concluding special defect existed on road without sidewalk
• uncovered hole “located where a pedestrian would normally walk on a street without a sidewalk” was special defect
• uncovered storm sewer hole located on part of street where pedestrian would normally walk
• uncovered storm sewer hole located on part of street where pedestrian would normally walk

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).