Jose Gracia, and Healthsouth Rehabilitation Center, Intervenor-Appellant, Cross-Appellee v. Brownsville Housing

PER CURIAM:'

This appeal arises from a terrible accident. In the summer of 1988, the Jose Gracia family was visiting Ezequiel Gracia, a relative, who was a resident of the Victoria Gar-déns Housing Project, a public housing project ini Brownsville, Texas. During the visit, four children were playing in Mr. Gracia’s hammock, which was strung between two trees near his apartment. One of the trees, a decayed avocado tree over twenty feet high, collapsed and fell on the children. One of Jose Gracia’s children was killed and another suffered paralysis and permanent brain damage. This ease presents…