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MOUNT PLEASANT IND. SCH. DIST. v. ESTATE OF LINDBURG

No. C-7379.

766 S.W.2d 208 (1989)

MOUNT PLEASANT INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT et al., Petitioners, v. ESTATE OF Misty Dawn Steck LINDBURG By and Through its Administratrix, Saundra LINDBURG et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Denied March 29, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert W. Weber and John R. Mercy, Atchley, Russell, Waldrop & Hlavinka, Texarkana, for petitioners.

Randell C. Roberts and Bruce L. Roberts, Loftis & Roberts, Tyler, for respondents.

SPEARS, Justice.

At issue in this case is the standard of care imposed upon a school district to ensure a student's safety after disembarking a district provided school bus, and the limits of the legislature's waiver of sovereign immunity. The trial court held the district owed a duty of ordinary care to its student passengers and that the doctrine of sovereign immunity did not protect the school district from suit. The court of appeals reversed, holding that the...

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