Court of Appeals of Texas March 5, 1981, 6249 (Crain v. Hill County)

HALL, Justice.

In March 1978, plaintiff-appellant J. W. Crain was driving his pickup truck on a public county gravel road owned and maintained by defendant-appellee Hill County, Texas, when the front of the truck fell into a washout which spanned the full width of the roadway across the top of a culvert where the road crossed over a creek.