City of Richardson v. Justus

OPINION

Opinion By

Justice MORRIS.

In this interlocutory appeal, the City of Richardson challenges the trial court’s denial of its plea to the jurisdiction in a lawsuit filed by Lisa A. Justus after she tripped and fell on a public sidewalk. The City contends the trial court erred in denying its plea because the condition of the sidewalk as alleged by Justus was not a special defect, the City had no knowledge of the alleged defect, and Justus’s separate negligence cause of action based on a City employee’s failure to repair or warn of the alleged defect is subsumed under her premises liability…