Brown v. Owens

OPINION

CANNON, Justice.

This is a consolidated appeal from an order of the 155th District Court of Waller County dismissing appellant’s suit because the statute of limitations had run before the suit was commenced in Waller County. The lawsuit sought to hold appellees liable under the Texas Tort Claims Act for the death of appellant’s son, Mark Anthony Brown.

Mark Anthony Brown was a student athlete at Prairie View A & M University. On the first day of football practice Brown became ill and died the next day, August 20,1976, in Hemstead, Waller County, Texas. Appellant filed suit under the…