State Department of Highways & Public Transportation v. Kitchen

OPINION

SEERDEN, Justice.

A jury found the State Department of Highways and Public Transportation liable for Calvin Kitchen’s death and for Charles Richards’s injuries. The men were involved in an auto accident which occurred when the appellees’ truck encountered ice *507on the highway, slid into oncoming traffic, and collided with another vehicle. The State raises seven points of error. We affirm.

Kitchen and Richards (hereinafter referred to as “Plaintiffs”) claimed that an icy bridge and a closed warning sign were defects under the Texas Tort Claims Act, and they presented jury questions…