FUENTES v. TRANSAMERICAN NATURAL GAS CORP.

No. 04-94-00490-CV.

933 S.W.2d 624 (1996)

Nancy Rodriguez FUENTES, Appellant, v. TRANSAMERICAN NATURAL GAS CORPORATION; Southwest Texas Services, Inc.; L.T.V. Energy Products d/b/a Wilson Manufacturing; Continental Emsco Company d/b/a Wilson Manufacturing; Wilson-Wichita, Inc. d/b/a Wilson Manufacturing; and Dana Corporation, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, San Antonio.

Rehearing Overruled October 24, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arnulfo Gonzalez, Jr., James K. Jones, Jr., Alicia C. Finley Richter, Mann, Jones & Gonzalez, L.L.P., Laredo, for appellant.

Michael V. Powell, David G. McCracken, Locke, Purnell, Rain & Harrell, P.C., Dallas, Allister M. Waldrop, Michael H. Smith, Baker & Botts, L.L.P., Houston, Charles R. Borchers, Person, Whitworth, Ramos, Borchers & Morales, Laredo, Allan R. King, Barker & King, L.L.P., Corpus Christi, Pamela Redd, Hughes, Watters & Askanase, Robert H. Etnyre, Jr., Royston, Razor, Vickery & Williams, Houston, for appellees.

Before RICKHOFF, LÓPEZ and HARDBERGER, JJ.


OPINION

HARDBERGER, Justice.

This appeal presents the issue of whether the former requirement in the Family Code, that a declaration of common-law marriage must be made within one year, replaces the wrongful death two-year statute of limitations. This is an appeal from a final summary judgment granted against Nancy Rodriguez Fuentes in an action under the Wrongful Death Act. Fuentes filed this action as the common-law wife of Julio Fuentes, who was killed...

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