Cain v. State, Department of Highway Safety

These consolidated appeals from a final judgment of the Court of Claims dismissing plaintiffs’ complaints for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, and failure to state a claim for which relief may be granted, present us with the issue of whether the state may be liable when its agents or employees issue a driver’s license to a person who could not read or write the English language, who passed an examination that was written in Spanish, and who later caused an automobile accident in which plaintiffs were injured.

Each plaintiff’s assignment of error asserts the following:

“The court below erred…