Legal Opinion
Industrial Construction Management v. DeSoto Independent School District
Texas Court of Appeals, 5th District (Dallas)
Decided December 28, 1989No. 05-89-00449-CVPublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CARVER, Justice.
Industrial Construction Management appeals from a summary judgment in which the trial court found that “the suit filed by the Plaintiff (Industrial) ... founded upon a breach of contract theory is barred in its entirety as a matter of law because the doctrine of sovereign immunity bars the filing of suit against independent school districts without legislative permission.” We disagree, reverse, and remand for trial.
The live pleadings of Industrial at the entry of the summary judgment alleged that Industrial and DeSoto Independent School District entered into a written…
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