Estate of Lindburg v. Mount Pleasant Independent School District

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING

Appellee has on motion for rehearing raised for the first time on appeal the contention that the school district is not an appropriate party for suit, because of the doctrine of sovereign immunity. Mount Pleasant Independent School District now argues that this is not a situation which falls within the limited waiver of governmental immunity provided by the Texas Tort Claims Act. Tex.Civ.Prac. & Rem. Code Ann. § 101.001 et seq. (Vernon 1986 & Supp.1988).

Points of error raised for the first time on motion for rehearing may not normally be considered by this Court. It has…