GENERAL ELEC. CO. v. MORITZ

No. 04-0871.

257 S.W.3d 211 (2008)

GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Petitioner, v. Arthur Lee MORITZ, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Decided June 13, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven K. Hayes, Cotten Schmidt, L.L.P., Ft. Worth, Robert D. Arredondo, Manning, Gosda & Arredondo, L.L.P., Houston, Richard E. McGary, Scheef & Stone, L.L.P., Dallas, TX, for Petitioner.

Frank G. Giunta, Teresa Ruiz Schober, Demarest, Smith & Giunta, PLLC, Dallas, Kevin J. Keith, Hiersche Hayward Drakely & Urbach, P.C., Addison, TX, for Respondant.


Justice BRISTER delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Justice HECHT, Justice WAINWRIGHT, Justice MEDINA, and Justice WILLETT joined.

Must a landowner warn an independent contractor's employees of obvious hazards they already know about? Four times in the last ten years this Court has said the answer is "No."1 The plaintiff in this case argues that all these cases are wrong because his knowledge of the hazard is simply a factor the...

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