Supreme Court of Texas

In plaintiff's suit against a city for injuries sustained after driving onto an excavated road, judgment of the court of appeals is reversed and the case dismissed for lack of subject matter jurisdiction as, when a claimant fails to timely provide a governmental unit with formal notice of a claim, a police report noting the perceived cause of an accident does not provide a governmental unit with actual notice of its fault in causing the accident, and here, because the police report was at most an initial response to the accident, the city lacked actual notice.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/07/2010
• Published 05/07/2010

Judges

• PER CURIAM.

Court

• Supreme Court of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Thomas P. Perkins Jr., Patricia Medrano, Barbara E. Rosenberg, James B. Pinson, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Rory Stephen Alter, Nick Maram, for Respondent.