Tooke v. City of Mexia

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that phrase “sue and be sued,” standing alone, is ambiguous as to waiver of immunity and, therefore, did not suffice to waive it
• holding that a ten-word sentence that revealed nothing about an intent to waive immunity did not waive City’s immunity from suit
• holding that lost profits from additional work “are consequential damages excluded from recovery under the statute”
• recognizing that the meaning of words “cannot be ascertained apart from the context in which they occur”
• holding that the words “sue and be sued” when used in a statute do not, by themselves, waive immunity
• holding that lost profits from additional work “are consequential damages excluded from recovery under the statute”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).