Dent v. Federal Sign & Signal Corp.

HOWELL, Justice.

Plaintiff Kathy Dent, on behalf of herself, her husband’s estate, and her son, appeals a summary judgment favoring Defendants Federal Sign & Signal Corporation, Federal Signal Corporation Factory Sales, and Law Enforcement Equipment Company. The trial court granted summary judgment for Defendants, concluding that the instant case is collaterally es-topped by a prior opinion of this Court addressing the same incident. Dent v. City of Dallas, 729 S.W.2d 114 (Tex.App.—Dallas 1987, writ ref’d n.r.e.), cert, denied, — U.S.-, 108 S.Ct. 1272, 99 L.Ed.2d 483 (1988) (Dent I). Plaintiff…