J. B. Dunham and Minnie Pearl Dunham, Individually, and J. B. Dunham, as Next Friend and Natural Guardian of Connie Dunham, a Minor v. B. H. Pannell

*727WISDOM, Circuit Judge.

The principal question this appeal raises concerns the evidentiary effect of paying a traffic ticket and entering an informal plea of guilty in traffic court proceedings. Is proof of such disposition of a traffic summons admissible, for impeachment purposes, in a damage suit based on the same acts recited in the traffic charge, as an admission against interest of a witness for the defendant ?

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One day in September, 1957, Minnie Dunham, her husband, and daughter, were in the family car in downtown Wichita Falls, Texas. There was a drizzling rain. Minnie Dunham was driving.…