Court Opinion

ID: 9665938
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 01:00:06.493732+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:15:20.936528
License: Public Domain

DAUPHINOT, Justice,
concurring.
I respectfully concur in the result only and do not join the majority’s reasoning. As the majority points out in a footnote, the legislature has recognized the respective duties of those planning to dig and the owners of underground electric lines.1 While this legislation was not in effect at the time of Hanus’s death, I believe it renders the majority’s analysis unnecessary because the legislation will govern future occurrences such as that now before us. Additionally, the analysis of the duty to warn is superfluous because TU’s summary judgment evidence that it did warn the public through flyers enclosed in bills and through public service announcements is uncontroverted. For these reasons, I concur in the result only and would hold that TU satisfied any duty to warn.

. Tex. Util.Code Ann. §§ 251.002(5), 251.009, 251.151 (Vernon Supp.2002).