U-HAUL INTERN., INC. v. WALDRIP

No. 10-0781.

380 S.W.3d 118 (2012)

U-HAUL INTERNATIONAL, INC. d/b/a U-Haul, U-Haul Co. of Texas, Inc. d/b/a U-Haul of Dallas, and East Fork Enterprises, Inc. d/b/a Jot `Em Down, Inc., Petitioners, v. Talmadge WALDRIP, Bernice Waldrip, Dinah Simington, and Anne Waldrip-Boyd, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Decided August 31, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George S. Christian , Austin, TX, for Amicus Curiae Texas Civil Justice League.

Christopher J. Pruitt , Brown Pruitt Peterson & Wambsganss PC, Fort Worth, TX, for Other interested party Boyd, Larry.

Dryden Liddle , San Rafael, CA, for Other interested party LawFinance Group, Inc.

David N. Kitner , Strasburger & Price, L.L.P., Dallas, TX, Creighton R. Magid , Dorsey & Whitney LLP, Washington, DC, for Other interested party U-Haul Co. of Arizona.

Christopher J. Pruitt , Brown Pruitt Peterson & Wambsganss PC, David E. Keltner , Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP, James Estes Griffis , Brown Pruitt Peterson & Wambsganss, Fort Worth, TX, Creighton R. Magid , Dorsey & Whitney LLP, Washington, DC, David N. Kitner , Strasburger & Price, L.L.P., Thomas S. Leatherbury , Vinson & Elkins LLP, Dallas, TX, Lisa Bowlin Hobbs , Kuhn Hobbs PLLC, Matthew Ploeger , Vinson & Elkins L.L.P., Austin, TX, for Petitioners U-Haul International, Inc.

Charles E. Schuerenberg , Schuerenberg & Grimes, Ted B. Lyon, Jr. , Marquette William Wolf , Ted Lyon & Associates, P.C., Mesquite, TX, Charles W. McGarry , Law Office of Charles McGarry, Jeffrey S. Levinger , Levinger PC, Joseph Carl Cecere , Hankinson LLP, Dallas, TX, for Respondents Waldrip, Talmadge.


Justice WAINWRIGHT delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Chief Justice JEFFERSON, Justice HECHT, Justice MEDINA, Justice GREEN, Justice JOHNSON, Justice WILLETT, and Justice GUZMAN joined.

After being seriously injured in an accident by a U-Haul truck, Talmadge Waldrip1 sued several U-Haul corporate entities and an independent dealer on theories of negligence and gross negligence, alleging that the accident was the result of a systematic...

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