Legal Opinion
in Re Ford Motor Company
Texas Supreme Court
Decided July 3, 2014No. 12-0957PublishedCited by 79 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Willett
in which Chief Justice HECHT, Justice GREEN, Justice GUZMAN, and Justice LEHRMANN joined.
This case requires us to interpret the definition of “plaintiff’ in the Texas-resident exception to the forum non conve-niens statute. A deféndant estate was sued in Texas regarding a Mexican decedent’s alleged responsibility for a car accident in Mexico. The estate filed a third-party claim against Ford. Wrongful-death *268beneficiaries — some of whom are legal residents of Texas — intervened and also filed claims against Ford. Ford moved to dismiss under forum non conveniens, and the trial court denied the…
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