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Light v. Womack

Texas Court of Appeals, 9th District (Beaumont)

Decided August 14, 2003No. 09-03-062 CVPublishedCited by 14 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

2Per curiam

Cameron Light, an inmate in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division, filed a negligence suit against Institutional Division employees Edward Womack and Carsidonia LaPaglia. Light alleged that he sustained a whiplash injury when a newly installed water heater toppled on him, and that the defendants were negligent in their supervision of the heater’s installation and in their maintenance of the safety of the boiler room in which Light worked. Light also alleged that he sustained economic injuries in the form of an $821 ambulance bill and a $5,897 commissary…

3Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Jackson v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice — Institutional Division, Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District2000
  2. Hickman v. Adams, Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District (Houston)2001
  3. Hughes v. Massey, Texas Court of Appeals, 9th District (Beaumont)2001
  4. Gowan v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Texas Court of Appeals, 6th District (Texarkana)2003
  5. Diles v. Henderson, Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District2002

4Cited by14 opinions

  1. Summers v. State Department of Criminal Justice, Texas Court of Appeals, 9th District (Beaumont)2008
  2. Anthony Leon Summers v. State of Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Texas Court of Appeals, 9th District (Beaumont)2008
  3. Calvin Wayne Copeland v. Medline Industries, Inc., Texas Court of Appeals, 11th District (Eastland)2010
  4. Calvin Wayne Copeland v. Medline Industries, Inc., Texas Court of Appeals, 11th District (Eastland)2010
  5. Cameron Light v. Edward Womack & Carsidonia Lapaglia, Texas Court of Appeals, 9th District (Beaumont)2004

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