Court Opinion

ID: 9671559
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 03:39:05.036003+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:10.757312
License: Public Domain

. DAVIS, Justice
(dissenting).
I dissent. I can not agree that Jack A. Sullivan was an “invitee”. If he was, he was a “business invitee”. I think that he was an “employee”. I do not think that the case by the Texas Supreme Count of Halepeska v. Callahan Interests, Inc., Tex., 371 S.W.2d 361, is directly in point. I am of the opinion that the decision in this case is in direct conflict therewith.
It has always seemed to me that if there is a doubt in the minds of Judges as to whether or not there was jury misconduct, then there was definitely jury misconduct. I can not agree that the question of jury misconduct can be “speculated” upon. I disagree with the holding of the Supreme Court of Texas in Trousdale v. Texas & New Orleans Railroad Co., 154 Tex. 231, 276 S.W.2d 242. In the dissent, four of the five Judges said there was jury misconduct. I can readily see where the plaintiff in this case proved injuries because of the jury misconduct. Reading the quoted portions in the testimony cited in the opinion, it can readily be seen.
I would reverse the judgment of the trial court.