DEPT. OF HWYS. & PUBLIC TRANSP. v. KING

No. D-0385.

808 S.W.2d 465 (1991)

STATE DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION, Petitioner, v. Edna KING, et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Overruled June 5, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cynthia L. Hooper, Dan Morales, Mary F. Keller, Lou McCreary, Austin, for petitioner.

John W. Newton, III, Gilbert I. Low, Beaumont, for respondents.


PER CURIAM.

Cecil King was killed and his wife and two daughters were injured when their car collided head-on with a car driven by Ronald Wright. King was driving in the right direction down a one-way access road toward a freeway entrance. Wright, who had been drinking, was headed the wrong way on that access road after having gone past a pair of "DO NOT ENTER" signs facing him. King's wife and daughters sued Wright and the State Department of Highways and Public...

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