NEWSOM v. B.B.

No. 09-08-00480-CV.

306 S.W.3d 910 (2010)

Harold R. NEWSOM, Appellant, v. B.B., B.C. as Next Friend of C.C., D.E. as Next Friend of E.E., and F.G. as Next Friend of G.G., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Beaumont.

Decided February 18, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scott Rothenberg, Law Office of Rothenberg, Houston, for Appellant.

Diana L. Faust, John Wesley Raley, Cooper & Scully, P.C., Dallas, Richard T. Howell, Jr., Buckley, White, Castaneda & Howell, L.L.P., Houston, for Appellees.

Before McKEITHEN, C.J., GAULTNEY and HORTON, JJ.


OPINION

STEVE McKEITHEN, Chief Justice.

Appellees B.B., C.C., E.E., and G.G., obtained a judgment against Harold R. Newsom for negligence and negligence per se based upon Newsom's failure to warn or protect appellees from acts of sexual assault by Newsom's adult son, Jason.1 In nine issues, Newsom contends Texas law recognizes no legal duty on the part of a father to warn third parties about the sexual and assaultive history...

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