Court Opinion

ID: 9771253
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 16:38:10.609559+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:31:27.687603
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GAMMAGE, Justice,
concurring.
I concur in the judgment of the majority but not its reasoning. I cannot agree with the majority’s conclusion that the evidence makes it “undisputed that she was injured by a condition of the premises ... rather than a negligently conducted activity.” At 259. The two are not separate and distinct theories of recovery. Both the premises-liability basis for recovery and the negligent-activity basis are negligence causes of action. I agree with the dissenting opinion that absent special exceptions the plaintiff’s petition must be construed liberally in favor of the pleader. Roark v. Allen, 633 S.W.2d 804, 809 (Tex.1982). The Warners’ pleadings, however, even when reasonably construed in their favor, did not give fair notice that they were asserting a negligent activity theory in the alternative to their premises liability theory. The negligent activity theory was not tried by implied consent because the evidence to support it also supported the premises liability theory expressly plead. See generally Tex. R.Civ.P. 67. The Warners’ pleadings reasonably supported only the premises liability negligence grounds, on which the jury found against them. I therefore concur in the majority's result but not its reasoning.