Supreme Court of Texas

In a negligence case in which an injured employee obtained a jury verdict against his employer, who carried no workers' compensation insurance, and the owner whose truck he was repairing, a court of appeals decision reversing a ruling setting aside a verdict against the truck owner is reversed as the owner could not be held liable under well-established rules of Texas law.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/21/2007
• Decided 06/29/2007
• Published 07/06/2007

Judges

• Justice BRISTER delivered the opinion of the Court.

Court

• Supreme Court of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Roy S. Dale, William D. Mount Jr., Katie P. Klein, Dale & Klein, L.L.P., McAllen, for Petitioner., Raymond Alan Cowley, Cox, Smith, Matthew, McAllen, for Other.


• For Appellees:
  
• Sean F. O'Neill, Sean T. Beiter, Law Offices of Sean F. O'Neill, P.C., San Antonio, Francisco Javier Garza, Hodge, James and Garza, L.L.P., Harlingen, Kevin M. Beiter, Hornberger Sheehan Fuller & Beiter, Inc., San Antonio, for Respondent.