Morrow v. Port Arthur Independent School District

DIES, Chief Justice.

Plaintiff below, Mrs. Dempsey Morrow on behalf of her son, Walter Morrow, sued the Port Arthur Independent School District, defendant below, for the negligence of an employee, the principal of DeQueen School, in failing to instruct the school bus driver to let her son off on Sixth Street rather than Seventh Street. Plaintiff alleged Seventh Street was “very busy” and created a “dangerous situation.”

Defendant filed a general denial, and in its prayer asked “that this action be dismissed by the court; that the court find that no cause of action whatsoever exists in favor of…