Synergy Gas Corp. v. Lindsey

Robert L. Brown, Justice.

The appellant, Synergy Gas Corporation, argues for reversal on the basis that a reference to Synergy’s liability insurance elicited from a Synergy employee by appellee Ida Lindsey’s counsel was prejudicial error. We believe that the reference to insurance was prejudicial, and we reverse and remand for a new trial.

On August 28, 1989, the appellee, Ida Lindsey, age 76, reported to Synergy employees that she smelled gas in her house, which was located west of Caldwell. That afternoon, two employees, Danny Shackleford and James Goings, were sent to her house from Forrest…