Court Opinion

ID: 9671031
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 03:29:46.495732+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:07.792801
License: Public Domain

WALKER, Justice
(dissenting).
A home rule city has full power to enact any ordinance not inconsistent with the Constitution or with general law. The ordinance now in question contravenes no general law and is expressly authorized by Art. 1175, V.A.T.S. It seems particularly inappropriate then for this Court to promulgate an arbitrary judicial exception. The ordinance may not be constitutionally applied, of course, in a manner that will destroy the rights of one who was, in fact, physically or mentally incapable of giving notice, and anyone under a legal disability obviously could not be expected to make an offer of settlement. These and the other exceptions mentioned in Wones v. City of Houston, Tex.Civ.App., 281 S.W.2d 133 (no writ), are entirely proper, but I would not hold that the ordinance has no application to every person under 21 years of age.
STEAKLEY and McGEE, JJ., join in this dissent. Opinion delivered June 7, 1972.