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CITY OF BROWNSVILLE v. ALVARADO

No. D-4598.

897 S.W.2d 750 (1995)

The CITY OF BROWNSVILLE, Petitioner, v. Eugenio ALVARADO and Olga Alvarado, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Decided March 30, 1995.

Rehearing Overruled June 8, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William S. Helfand, Tina Snelling, J. Preston Wrotenbery, Houston, for petitioner.

Carter C. White, San Francisco, CA, Edward S. Stapleton, III, Yolanda De Leon, Brownsville, for respondents.

CORNYN, Justice, delivered the opinion of the Court, in which all JUSTICES join.

Ricardo Serna Alvarado committed suicide in the Brownsville City Jail by hanging himself with a blanket from the bars of his cell. His parents, Victor and Olga Alvarado, brought this wrongful death and survival action against the City, claiming that the City's negligence proximately caused Ricardo's death. Although the jury failed to find that any negligence on the part of the City caused...

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