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STATE DEPT. HWYS & PUB. TRANSP. v. GONZALEZ

No. 13-97-237-CV.

24 S.W.3d 533 (2000)

The STATE of Texas, By and Through the STATE DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION, Appellants, v. Maria C. GONZALEZ, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Hilda Martinez, Deceased, et al., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Corpus Christi.

Rehearing Overruled August 17, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dan Morales, Atty. Gen., Laquita A. Hamilton, Deputy Atty. Gen. for Litigation, William E. Williams, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., Grady Click, Asst. Atty. Gen., Susan Desmarais Bonnen, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jorge Vega, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Vanessa Ann Gonzalez, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, for Appellant.

Richard J. Karam, David Mcquade Leibowitz, Leibowitz & Yanta, San Antonio, Daniel Keith Worthington, McAllen, Marcos Fulop, San Antonio, for Appellee.

Before Justices DORSEY, HINOJOSA, and RODRIGUEZ.

OPINION

J. BONNER DORSEY, Justice.

In February of 1987, Maria Alicia Gonzalez was driving on FM 3072 with her sister, niece and her children. She failed to stop at an intersection and crashed into another vehicle. All occupants of Gonzalez' vehicle, save one, died at the scene.

The survivors sued the State of Texas, through its Department of Transportation, alleging it was negligent in failing to maintain the stop sign at the intersection where the...

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