Court Opinion

ID: 9763703
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 02:52:46.253398+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:29:48.646887
License: Public Domain

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING.
BASKIN, Justice.
Appellant urges a cause of action never heretofore recognized in Texas. He insists that a corporation which buys the assets of another corporation, without more, stands in the shoes of the selling corporation in a products liability case.
The following are undisputed facts: (1) appellant was hurt in Bexar County, (2) by an instrumentality designed, manufactured, and sold by Custom, (3) Trinity (long before the accident) purchased the assets of Custom. If, without more, the purchase of Custom’s assets by Trinity places Trinity in Custom’s shoes, then as a matter of law, appellant has a cause of action against Trinity in Bexar County.
The majority has impliedly held that such a cause of action does not exist. I believe that appellant is entitled to have this court answer that question directly.
I would therefore grant the motion for rehearing to enable us to withdraw the opinion of the court so as to deal frontally with a question of law addressed directly to us.