Texas Parks & Wildlife Department v. E.E. Lowrey Realty, Ltd.

After a fire damaged its storage facility, E.E. Lowrey Realty, Ltd. d/b/a Gatesville Storage, along with the Estate of E.E. Lowrey (collectively, “Lowrey”), sued the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and two of its employees, Marvin C. Wills, Jr., a game warden, and Doug Hammitt, a field radio technician. Lowrey alleged negligence claims relating to Wills’s and Ham-mitt’s installation of a radio, siren, and lights on a TPWD patrol boat stored in Lowrey’s facility, and alleged that TPWD breached its storage contract by refusing to pay for damages caused by the fire. TPWD and its employees…