Opinion ID: 1766914
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: the property damage, personal injury, or death arises from the operation or use of a motor-driven vehicle or motor-driven equipment; and

Text: B) the employee would be personally liable to the claimant according to Texas law; and 2) personal injury and death so caused by a condition or use of tangible personal property or real property if the governmental unit would, were it a private person, be liable to the claimant according to Texas law. Tex.Civ.Prac. 101.021 (emphasis supplied). It follows from the plain language of section 101.021 that the City's liability under the TTCA depends on the personal liability of its police officers. Carpenter, 797 S.W.2d at 102; Wyse, 733 S.W.2d at 228; Dent, 729 S.W.2d at 117. Because there is a fact issue pertaining to the officers' liability, the judgment of the court of appeals must be reversed on this ground as well.       For the foregoing reasons, I concur in the Court's judgment. However, I respectfully dissent to that portion of the opinion which holds that respondents have failed to preserve error on the issue of official immunity and the City's liability under the TTCA. PHILLIPS, C.J., and GONZALEZ, J., join in this concurring opinion.