STATE v. RODRIGUEZ

No. 98-0265.

985 S.W.2d 83 (1999)

The STATE of Texas, Petitioner, v. Maria Louisa RODRIGUEZ, representative of the minor children of the marriage of Maria Louisa Rodriguez and Juan Garcia Rodriguez, Juan Rodriguez, Jr., Rene Angel Rodriguez, Julissa Rodriguez and Cynthia Rodriguez, Julio Cesar Rodriguez, et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

January 7, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susan Desmarais Bonnen, Grady Click, Dan Morales, Jorge Vega, David A. Talbot, Jr., Austin, for petitioner.

Robert Anderson, Corpus Christi, for respondents.


PER CURIAM.

This case involves the State's immunity in a wrongful death case. In 1990, Juan Garcia Rodriguez was killed when his tractor-trailer rig hit a bridge abutment along the side of a detour on U.S. Highway 77 in Corpus Christi. The detour directed traffic onto a frontage road to avoid a large excavation on U.S. 77. After following the detour for about one mile, Rodriguez failed to complete a ninety-degree turn in...

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