Legal Opinion
Wright v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice-Institutional Division
Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District (Houston)
Decided October 18, 2001No. 14-99-01204-CVPublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SCOTT BRISTER, Chief Justice.
On November 21, 1990, Gerald Anthony Wright, the appellant and an inmate in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice'— Institutional Division (“TDCJ-ID”), filed a state tort claim against James A. Collins, the former director of TDCJ-ID, for injuries he sustained a month earlier in a slip- and-fall at the Ellis Two Unit. On March 31, 1991, Wright amended his complaint to add several other state employees as defendants, and on July 27, 1995, amended again to add TDCJ-ID.
In 1998 and 1999, more than eight years after the original petition, the defendants filed…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Enserch Corp. v. ParkerTexas Supreme Court · 1990
- Johnson v. LynaughTexas Supreme Court · 1990
- Chilkewitz v. HysonTexas Supreme Court · 1999
- Price v. Estate of AndersonTexas Supreme Court · 1975
- Thompson v. Henderson, Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)1996
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3Cited by14 opinions
- City of San Angelo v. Smith, Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin)2002
- Crane County v. Saults, Texas Court of Appeals, 8th District (El Paso)2003
- Riston v. Doe, Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District (Houston)2004
- City of San Angelo v. Terrell "Terry" Smith, Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin)2002
- City of San Angelo v. Terrell "Terry" Smith, Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin)2002
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