ROWAN v. CITY OF GALVESTON

No. 831.

13 F.2d 257 (1926)

ROWAN v. CITY OF GALVESTON.

District Court, S. D. Texas, at Galveston.

June 5, 1926.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howth, Adams & Hart, of Beaumont, Tex., for plaintiff.

Bryan F. Williams, City Atty., of Galveston, Tex., for defendant.


HUTCHESON, District Judge.

This case has been submitted to me on the preliminary law question whether a cause of action can be laid against the city of Galveston on account of damages arising from the operation by the city of street lights, where the city does not conduct a light plant for profit or sell light to its inhabitants.

While the matter is not free from doubt, but is, on the contrary, involved in doubt, I have reached the tentative conclusion that...

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