Rhodes v. Honda

OPINION

Opinion by

Justice MOSELEY.

Thomas Victor Rhodes, Jr., and Josephine Ann O’Dell brought a wrongful death lawsuit against what appears to be sixteen defendants (corporate and otherwise), which will hereafter be identified collectively as Honda, the cause of action arising from an accident involving an all-terrain vehicle.

Following repeated discovery disputes, the trial court issued rulings which dismissed Rhodes’s and O’Dell’s claims against all appellees except for the individual Mayes 1 defendants. Rhodes/O’Dell then failed to respond to Mayes’s discovery, and the trial court ultimately…