Wheat v. Texas Department of Corrections

OPINION

JACK SMITH, Justice.

The appellant, an inmate at the Texas Department of Corrections, brought suit under the Texas Tort Claims Act against the Texas Department of Corrections for the loss of his personal property by department employees. The appellee filed a motion to dismiss on the grounds that the appellant was claiming civil rights violations and that such a cause of action was not cognizable because an adequate state remedy was available. The court granted the appellee’s motion.

The appellant had filed an inmate grievance with the appellee in which he alleged that several of his law…