Bridges v. Robinson

OPINION

DON WITTIG, Justice.

Darryl W. Robinson, deceased, went on a shopping spree which tragically ended at a Houston Dillard’s Department Store. An altercation with the store manager turned deadly. The deceased was carted off, hogtied, ribs broken, and placed on Dillard’s’ curb. There he was pronounced dead.

Appellants advance this interlocutory accelerated appeal of the trial court’s denial of their summary judgment motions on the affirmative defense of official immunity. Dillard’s’ security and law enforcement officers were called to intervene in a dispute the deceased was having with…