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TARRANT COUNTY v. DOBBINS

No. 2-95-223-CV.

919 S.W.2d 877 (1996)

TARRANT COUNTY and James L. Kirkpatrick, Appellants, v. Henry DOBBINS, Jr., Individually, Hazel Dobbins, Individually, and Carol Kennedy, as Next Friend of Christopher Lee Kennedy, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Fort Worth.

Rehearing Overruled May 9, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tim Curry, Criminal District Attorney, Dana M. Womack, Assistant District Attorney, Fort Worth, for Appellants.

C. Gregory Shamoun and W. Charles Campbell, Law Offices of Joseph E. Ashmore, Jr., P.C., Dallas, for Appellees.

Before LIVINGSTON, RICHARDS and BRIGHAM, JJ.

OPINION

RICHARDS, Justice.

This is an appeal from a district court order denying summary judgment to a defendant county and county medical examiner's office investigator who claim sovereign and official immunity as affirmative defenses. The suit arose after the medical examiner's investigator took custody of the body of a person the Appellees contend was not dead.

Henry Dobbins, Hazel Dobbins, and Carol Kennedy, as next friend of Christopher Lee...

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