Mayor, Aldermen & Inhabitants of Houston v. Isaacks

Citations

• 68 Tex. 116
• 3 S.W. 693
• 1887 Tex. LEXIS 649

Syllabus

<p>1. City Charter Construed—Notice.—The amended charter of the city of Houston provides that the city shall be exempt from liability for injuries caused from streets, crossings, bridges or sidewalks being out of repair, unless the same shall have remained so for ten days after special notice in writing given to the mayor or street commissioner. Held, that if injury results from the negligence of the very city officers to whom the notice is required to be given, in leaving unprotected excavations in a street, no written notice is required to render the city liable in damages. On this point the decision rendered in City of Springfield v.. Le Claire., 49 Illinois, 476, approved.</p>