Kerry A. Kilburn and Cynthia H. Kilburn v. Fort Bend County Drainage District
Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District (Houston)
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
JEFFREY V. BROWN, Justice.
Appellants Kerry and Cynthia Kilburn appeal the trial court’s order granting ap-pellee Fort Bend County Drainage District’s (“the County”) plea to the jurisdiction as to the Kilburns’ negligence claim. We reverse and remand.
I
The Kilburns own a ten-acre tract of land adjacent to a creek in Fort Bend County. Between December of 2008 and January 2009, the County undertook excavation operations to remove debris from the creek and grade its banks. Some of this work took place on the Kilburns’ property, on which the County’s records erroneously indicated it had an…
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