in Re Ford Motor Company

Justice JOHNSON,

joined by Justice DEVINE and Justice BROWN, and by Justice BOYD as to Part III, dissenting.

The Court holds that the wrongful death beneficiaries who intervened in Juan Mendez’s personal injury suit against the estate of his deceased brother Cesar are plaintiffs within the meaning of the Texas-resident exception to the forum non conve-niens statute because only defendants can be third-party plaintiffs, and thus excluded from the definition of plaintiff under the exception. In my view the Court errs in two ways. First, it errs by reading language into the statute, and next it…