Texas Department of Criminal Justice v. Simons

OPINION

RONALD L. WALKER, Chief Justice.

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice brings this accelerated interlocutory appeal from the district court’s denial of its plea to the jurisdiction. See Tex. Civ. PRAC. & Rem.Code Ann. § 51.014(8) (Vernon Supp.2002). The Department presents one issue on appeal: ‘Whether Plaintiffs claim is barred because Defendant did not have Actual Notice within six months, as required by the Texas Tort Claims Act.” *140The appellee, Brian Edward Simons, is an inmate in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division, who filed a state tort claim…