Louie Lawson, Representative of the Estate of Carolyn Burns v. City of Diboll, Texas

In this premises-defeet case, a spectator at a youth softball game sustained injuries in a trip-and-fall accident while exiting a baseball complex in a city park. At issue is whether the recreational use statute encompasses the spectator’s claims against the city and, therefore, elevates the liability standard required to invoke the. Texas Tort Claims Act’s governmental-immunity waiver. See Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code §§ 75.001-.007; State v. Shumake, 199 S.W.3d 279, 281 (Tex.2006).' On interlocutory appeal from a trial-court order denying the city’s plea to the jurisdiction, the court of…