City of Corsicana v. Wren

For all practical purposes, this case may be said to present the single question of whether ownership and operation of an airport by a Home Rule City pursuant to Art. 46d-15, Vernon’s Texas Civ. Stats., is a governmental function in the sense that renders the city immune from liability for negligence in burning grass on the airport premises, as a result of which certain property of the respondent-plaintiff there stored by him under contractual arrangement with the petitioner-defendant City was destroyed or damaged.

The Waco Court of Civil Appeals, in thoughtful opinions, *204including one on…