Cavnar v. Quality Control Parking, Inc.

OPINION

J. CURTISS BROWN, Chief Justice.

This is a wrongful death action predicated upon common law negligence and the Texas Wrongful Death Statute. TEX. REV.CIV.STAT.ANN. art. 4671 (Vernon Supp.1982-1983), and the Texas Survival Statute, TEX.REV.CIV.STAT.ANN. art. 5525 (Vernon 1958). The fatal accident occurred in a parking lot adjacent to a nightclub called the Ritz. The decedent, Geraldine Cavnar, was a pedestrian walking across a parking lot as she left the Ritz on the night of November 17, 1978. She was accompanied by her adult daughter, Kathy Cavnar and a friend. While the three were…