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REYES v. CITY OF HOUSTON

No. 01-98-00062-CV.

4 S.W.3d 459 (1999)

Catalina Cortez REYES, Individually and as the Executor of the Estate of Roberto Cortez, Deceased; Gregorio Leal and Margarita Leal, Individually and as the Next Kin of Edward Leal, Deceased; and Refugio Rios Perez a/k/a Refugio Rios and Guadalupe Rios, Individually and on the Behalf of the Estate of Gilberto Rios, Deceased, Appellants, v. The CITY OF HOUSTON, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Houston (1st Dist.).

October 28, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Keith C. Livesay, Pharr, Bill R. Gifford, Houston, Hector Eliseo Garcia, John Gregory Escamilla, McAllen, for appellant.

Anthony W. Hall, Jr., Laura Ann Coast, Houston, for appellee.

Panel consists of Justices MIRABAL, HEDGES, and SMITH.

OPINION

ADELE HEDGES, Justice.

This is an appeal from the grant of a plea to the jurisdiction in favor of the City of Houston and the resulting dismissal for want of jurisdiction. We reverse and remand.

Facts

Three young men died in a car accident on July 13, 1996. Their car ran off the end of a dead-end road and hit a chain-link fence some distance from the road. Their survivors brought...

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