Legal Opinion
Kelly v. LIN Television of Texas, L.P.
Texas Court of Appeals, 11th District (Eastland)
Decided August 17, 2000No. 11-99-00128-CVPublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
TERRY McCALL, Justice.
The owners of a 1,500-foot television tower hired an independent contractor to replace an old broadcasting antenna with a new one. While the contractor was hoisting a 10,000 pound piece of equipment up the tower, the piece of equipment broke away from the tower and fell against a guy wire, and the tower collapsed. Two of the independent contractor’s employees were killed. Their parents sued the present tower owner and the prior owners for negligently maintaining the tower and for negligently misrepresenting the dangerous condition of the tower.
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