Carr v. City of Fort Worth

OPINION

SUE WALKER, Justice.

I. Introduction

This is a cross-appeal from a partial plea to the jurisdiction and from competing motions for summary judgment involving the alleged failure of Appellees — the City of Fort Worth and Fire Chief Rudolph Jackson, Jr. — to promote Appellant Kris Canto the rank of fire engineer under the local government code. At issue in the underlying lawsuit was whether the procedurally defective discharge of fire engineer Artie M. Dawson created as a matter of law a vacancy in the rank of fire engineer prior to her reinstatement such that Carr, who was at the top of…