TAMAYO v. CITY OF HARLINGEN

No. 1743.

618 S.W.2d 102 (1981)

Aurora G. TAMAYO, as Next Friend of Geronimo Tamayo, Elizabeth Tamayo, Delia Tamayo, and Ruben Tamayo, Appellants, v. CITY OF HARLINGEN, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Corpus Christi.

May 21, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Warren Weir, Gochman & Weir, San Antonio, Richard C. Arroyo, Brownsville, for appellants.

Paul W. O'Leary, Dennis Sanchez, O'Leary, Sanchez & Benton, Brownsville, for appellee.


OPINION

YOUNG, Justice.

This appeal involves the right to recover exemplary damages against the city by the surviving children of a city employee killed while in the course of his employment. Aurora G. Tamayo, as next friend to the children (appellants) of Geronimo Tamayo, Jr., the decedent, brought suit seeking exemplary damages against the City of Harlingen, a municipal corporation (appellee). Summary judgment in favor of the city was granted by the trial...

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