INA of Texas v. Torres

OPINION

SAM BASS, Justice.

On January 31, 1986, Jose Orlando Torres (Torres) was working on a truck owned by Ramirez in the yard of Overland Express Company (Overland). Overland is a transportation trucking company whose drivers all are independent contractors. According to Torres, Mark Lancaster (Lancaster) who, with his wife Debbie, was the owner of Overland, was looking for a truck to use at a new truck stop opened by Overland, and he had asked Torres and Ramirez to get the truck prepared for that purpose. Torres and Ramirez were repairing a compressor on the truck when a spark ignited some…