CARR v. CITY OF FORT WORTH

No. 2-07-375-CV.

266 S.W.3d 116 (2008)

Kris CARR, Appellant/Cross-Appellee, v. CITY OF FORT WORTH, Texas, and Fire Chief Rudolph Jackson, Jr., Appellees/Cross-Appellants.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Fort Worth.

August 26, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

B. Craig Deats, Deats Durst Owen & Levy, PLLC, Austin, for appellant.

Elizabeth Dierdorf, Luis E. Fierros, Asst. City Attorneys, Fort Worth, for appellee.

PANEL: GARDNER, WALKER, and McCOY, JJ.


OPINION

SUE WALKER, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

This is a cross-appeal from a partial plea to the jurisdiction and from competing motions for summary judgment involving the alleged failure of Appellees—the City of Fort Worth and Fire Chief Rudolph Jackson, Jr.—to promote Appellant Kris Carr to the rank of fire engineer under the local government code. At issue in the underlying lawsuit was whether the procedurally defective discharge...

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