Legal Opinion

Marty Danielle Gann v. Anheuser-Busch, Inc. and Falls Distributing Company, Inc.

Texas Court of Appeals, 8th District (El Paso)

Decided July 25, 2012No. 08-11-00017-CVPublishedCited by 16 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

CHRISTOPHER ANTCLIFF, Justice.

In this case, the issue we must address is whether the Appellees, the manufacturer and seller and the distributor of a “long-neck” glass beer bottle, are liable for the injuries sustained by Appellant when she was struck in the face by a patron at a bar wielding the bottle as a weapon. Concluding that Appellant has failed to produce more than a scintilla of evidence that the longneck bottle was defectively designed so as to render it unreasonably dangerous and failed to establish that Appellees owed her a legal duty to protect her from the criminal acts of…

2Cases cited21 opinions

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