Legal Opinion

Suarez v. City of Texas City

Texas Supreme Court

Decided June 19, 2015No. 13-0947PublishedCited by 181 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Guzman

This interlocutory appeal involves a municipality’s plea to the jurisdiction in a *627premises-liability case arising from the drowning deaths of three family members at a man-made beach. The surviving spouse and mother of the decedents alleges that the drowning deaths resulted from a peculiar risk of harm created by a con- • fluence of artificial and natural conditions at the beach and that the municipality was grossly negligent in failing to warn or protect the public against those dangers. The trial court denied the jurisdictional plea, but the court of appeals reversed and dismissed the…

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