Legal Opinion
Hopkins Ex Rel. Hopkins v. Spring Independent School District
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided January 30, 1986No. A14-85-652-CVPublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ELLIS, Justice.
This is an appeal from a summary judgment granted Appellees Spring Independent School District and a number of its employees in a suit for damages suffered by the minor Appellant. We affirm the order of the trial court.
Appellant Celeste Adeline Hopkins, a minor afflicted by cerebral palsy, attended an elementary school which is a unit of the Appellee Spring Independent School District (Spring I.S.D.). Appellant contends while she was left unsupervised in the schoolroom, another student pushed her into a stack of chairs, causing a severe blow to her head. When the teacher…
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