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WRIGHT v. TEXAS DEPT. OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE

No. 14-99-01204-CV.

68 S.W.3d 788 (2001)

Gerald Anthony WRIGHT, Appellant, v. TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE—INSTITUTIONAL DIVISION, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Houston (14th Dist.).

October 18, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel E. Maeso, Gerard Raphael Rawls, Austin, for appellee

Panel consists of Chief Justice BRISTER and Justices FOWLER and SEYMORE. (SEYMORE, J., dissenting).

OPINION

SCOTT BRISTER, Chief Justice.

On November 21, 1990, Gerald Anthony Wright, the appellant and an inmate in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice— Institutional Division ("TDCJ-ID"), filed a state tort claim against James A. Collins, the former director of TDCJ-ID, for injuries he sustained a month earlier in a slip-and-fall at the Ellis Two Unit. On March 31, 1991, Wright amended his complaint to add several other state employees as defendants...

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