Tarrant County v. Morales

OPINION

JOHN CAYCE, Chief Justice.

Introduction

Tarrant County, the Tarrant County Sheriffs Department, and Tarrant County Sheriff Dee Anderson in his official capacity (collectively, the County) bring this interlocutory appeal from the trial court’s order denying their plea to the jurisdiction on Susanne Morales’s negligence and premises defect claims. In one issue, the County complains that the trial court erred by denying the plea to the jurisdiction because the County is immune from suit for Morales’s claims under article 42.20 of the code of criminal procedure. 1 The County contends that 1)…