Legal Opinion
In Re Texas Department of Transportation
Texas Supreme Court
Decided March 9, 2007No. 06-0289PublishedCited by 72 opinions
1Per curiam
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) and Gillespie County each seek writ of mandamus directing the probate court of Travis County to transfer venue of a personal injury suit to Gillespie County. They assert that as to each of them, separately, venue is mandatory in Gillespie County. We conditionally grant relief.
On the evening of January 16, 2004 Courtney Foreman was a passenger in a car approaching a bridge over the Peder-nales River in Gillespie County. As it neared the bridge the car slid off the roadway, through a gap between the guardrail and the adjacent embankment and into…
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