· 5/7/2010
City of Dallas v. Carbajal
Citations
- 324 S.W.3d 537
- 53 Tex. Sup. Ct. J. 715
- 2010 Tex. LEXIS 356
- 2010 WL 1818439
How courts have described this case
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- recognizing that actual knowledge/notice includes subjective awareness by the governmental unit that its fault produced or contributed to the claimed injury.
- holding “routine safety investigation” reports are insufficient to provide actual notice
- holding, in suit alleging accident was caused by defective road conditions, that police report stating that claimant’s vehicle drove into excavated road that lacked proper barricades did not establish actual notice, because it “[did] not say who failed to erect or maintain the barricades”
- “[M]erely investigating an accident is insufficient to provide actual notice. The report only describes what apparently caused the accident (missing barricades
- per happened shortly into this conversation; and that curiam
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Judges: Per Curiam
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