Browne v. Bachman

KEY, Associate Justice.

Appellant brought this suit against J. A. Bachman and the city of Lockhart, to recover damages caused by the plaintiff’s stepping into a ditch in the nighttime in a public street within the corporate limits of the city of Lockhart. The trial in the court below resulted in favor of the defendants, and the plaintiff has appealed.

We sustain the first assignment of error which complains of the ruling of the court in not permitting the plaintiff to introduce in evidence' an ordinance of the city of Lockhart, plead by him in his petition, and which he charged the defendants…