Legal Opinion
Hughes v. Thrash
Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)
Decided June 18, 1992No. 01-91-00486-CVPublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
PRICE, Justice (Assigned). 1
This is an appeal from a judgment based on a jury verdict for the appellee, Bobby Ray Thrash (plaintiff), as a result of personal injuries he sustained when a 500-pound cotton bale fell on him.
The accident occurred at a cotton warehouse owned by appellant, Ray Hughes, Jr., d/b/a General Cotton Warehouse (defendant). Plaintiff was delivering two loads of cotton bales to the warehouse in his flatbed truck. One load consisted of 98 bales while the other had only 10 bales. Each bale weighed about 500 pounds. These bales had been loaded onto the plaintiff’s truck…
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