Texas Supreme Court
State Department of Highways and Public Transportation, Petitioner v. Betty Lou Kitchen and Charles Don Richards…
December 8, 199337 Tex. Sup. Ct. J. 278
Summary
The Texas Supreme Court reversed the Court of Appeals' judgment that the State Department of Highways and Public Transportation was liable for injuries caused by an icy bridge, holding that the bridge condition is a premise defect, not a special defect, and that the State lacked actual knowledge and a duty to the plaintiffs. Consequently, the plaintiffs recover nothing.