Still v. City of Houston

GILL, Associate Justice.

This suit was brought by H. C. Still against the city of Houston to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by him as a resut of a defective sidewalk along one of the public streets of the city of Houston, the defect being ■due to the negligence of the city. The answer of the city contained a general denial, and a special plea to the effect that, by the force of one ■of its charter provisions, it was exempt from liability resulting from defects in streets and sidewalks, except when they had been permitted to remain out of repair for ten…