Legal Opinion
Torres v. Texas Department of Transportation
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided August 29, 2002No. 13-01-125-CVPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Opinion by Justice DORSEY.
Appellants, Christina Torres, Juan R. Esquivel, Blanca Capetillo, Anna M. Guerra, and Rosa Marie Esquivel, individually and as the representatives of the Estate of Ricardo Esquivel, filed a wrongful death and survival action against the Texas Department of Transportation (the State) following an auto-pedestrian collision which killed Ricardo Esquivel as he was crossing State Highway 77 in San Benito, Texas at a point where a street light was not working. The trial court granted summary judgment for the State on the basis that it had no duty to maintain the…
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