City of Dallas v. Mitchell

How courts have described this case

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• holding that city was not immune from claims based on negligent construction and maintenance of retaining wall, where plaintiffs = son crashed his bicycle and fell about twenty feet
• “The proprietary functions of a municipality do not include those governmental activities listed [in § 101.0215(a)].”
• city retained immunity from claims related to original design of retaining wall but not from claims of negligent construction and maintenance of wall
• city retained immunity from claims related to original design of retaining wall but not from claims of negligent construction and maintenance of wall
• the payment of city taxes alone does not confer invitee status on park users
• “When two statutes conflict, the specific controls over the general.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).