RICARDO N., INC. v. TURCIOS DE ARGUETA

No. 94-0111.

907 S.W.2d 423 (1995)

RICARDO N., INC., Petitioner, v. Maria Margarita TURCIOS DE ARGUETA, as Administrator of the Estate of Juan Luis Argueta, Deceased, and as Guardian of Xiomara Margarita Argueta, Maria de Los Angeles Argueta, Jorge Samuel Argueta, and Maria Aidee, Minors, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Filed June 8, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christa Brown, Austin, G. Don Schauer, Daniel D. Pipitone, Corpus Christi, for petitioner.

Miguel A. Saldana, Richard E. Zayas, Brownsville, for respondents.


HECHT, Justice, delivered the opinion of the Court.

With no word of explanation, Juan Luis Argueta, a seaman on the shrimping vessel, the Betty N, jumped overboard in the middle of the night in high seas about eighty miles off the Texas coast. His disappearance and presumed death make it impossible to ascertain his motives, but there are indications that he acted out of distress over rumors of his wife's infidelity. She, Maria Margarita Turcios de Argueta,...

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