City of Beaumont v. Kane

On the night of July 3, 1926, appellee, W. A. Kane, drove his automobile down Pearl street, Beaumont, across Austin street, onto the approach to the city wharf and across the wharf into the Neches river. At that point the water in the river was about twenty-three feet deep and about fifteen feet below the wharf. This suit was by appellee against appellant, the city of Beaumont, for $30,000 as damages suffered by him on the facts stated. As grounds of negligence he pleaded that the city of Beaumont failed to:

“Provide the foot of Pearl Street at the southern edge of the wharf along the Neches…