Pharo v. Chambers County

OPINION

HEDGES, Justice.

Ray Wayne and Mary Alice Pharo appeal from a take nothing judgment in favor of Chambers County. We affirm.

Statement of Facts

On October 10,1983, four young men were driving home to Nederland from a concert in Houston. At 3:00 a.m., they crashed into a van stopped at a roadblock that had been set up by the Chambers County Sheriffs Department and the Department of Public Safety (DPS). Bryan Pharo, who was asleep in the front seat, was killed. The authorities had set up the roadblock in an effort to capture an armed robber who had led them on a high-speed chase.

The Pharos,…