DeLuna v. Guynes Printing Co. of Texas

OPINION

KOEHLER, Justice.

This suit presents the question of whether an employer owes a duty to persons who are injured by an off-duty employee, who, after leaving work for the day, consumed alcohol in a parking lot on or adjacent to the employer’s premises and thereafter was involved in an automobile accident on a public street. The trial court concluded that it did not and granted the employer’s motion for summary judgment. We affirm.

In April 1989, Isela DeLuna and Carol Robledo Saenz, Appellants, were injured when an automobile driven by Armando Car-doza ran into several automobiles parked…