Legal Opinion
Cameron Light v. Edward Womack & Carsidonia Lapaglia
Texas Court of Appeals, 9th District (Beaumont)
Decided September 30, 2004No. 09-04-00087-CVPublished
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION ON REHEARING
DON BURGESS, Justice.
In response to a motion for rehearing filed by Appellant, we withdraw our opinion of August 26, 2004, and substitute the following in its place.
Cameron Light, an inmate in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division, filed a negligence suit against Institutional Division employees Edward Womack and Carsidonia Lapaglia. Light alleged that he sustained a whiplash injury when a newly installed water heater toppled on him, and that the defendants were negligent in their supervision of the heater’s installation and in their maintenance…