DUNHAM v. PANNELL

No. 17278.

263 F.2d 725 (1959)

J. B. DUNHAM and Minnie Pearl Dunham, Individually, and J. B. Dunham, as Next friend and natural guardian of Connie Dunham, a minor, Appellants, v. B. H. PANNELL et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

February 20, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack G. Banner, Kouri & Banner, Wichita Falls, Tex., for appellants.

Clyde Fillmore, Wichita Falls, Tex., for appellees.

Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and RIVES and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.


WISDOM, 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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