Court Opinion

ID: 9773115
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 17:37:51.19768+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:31:50.240303
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ON MOTION FOR REHEARING
OSBORN, Justice.
The Appellants and the Appellee, International Harvester Company, have filed motions for rehearing. Those motions have been considered and they are overruled.
International Harvester Company asserts in its Point of Error No. 2 in its motion that the trial Court erred in overruling its special exception to the cause of action asserted for the wrongful death of Charles R. Wenzel. Although the issue of limitations was not properly raised, as noted in our original opinion, the special exception *903did raise a proper issue as to the asserted cause of action under Texas law for death resulting from injuries sustained in New Mexico. It appears that the special exception to the statutory cause of action which was based on an accident prior to the 1975 amendment of Article 4678 should have been sustained. Marmon v. Mustang Aviation, Inc., 430 S.W.2d 182 (Tex.1968); Gutierrez v. Collins, 583 S.W.2d 312 (Tex.1979); Cass v. Estate of McFarland, 564 S.W.2d 107 (Tex.Civ.App. — El Paso 1978, no writ). Nevertheless, since the judgment in favor of International Harvester Company has been affirmed, the issue raised by the point of error is moot.