Bounds v. Caudle

OPINION

YOUNG, Justice.

This is an appeal from two separate judgments resulting from a consolidated jury trial of a probate proceeding and a tort action. This is the retrial of both suits under the instructions of the Texas Supreme Court in Bounds v. Caudle, 560 S.W.2d 925 (Tex.1977). The Supreme Court in the first trial abolished the doctrine of interspousal tort immunity to the extent that the doctrine would no longer apply in cases involving the commission of an intentional tort by one spouse against the other. The Court further ruled that the trial court had erred in certain procedural…