Holly Sugar Company of Hereford v. Aguirre

REYNOLDS, Justice.

A jury-verdict judgment awarded a business invitee damages for personal injuries suffered on the premises of, and negligently caused by, an occupier defendant. Appeal from this judgment has been taken on the grounds of legal and factual insufficiency of the evidence, and the failure of the trial court to submit an affirmative defense. Reversed and remanded.

The parties are referred to by their trial court designations. Plaintiff Pablo Aguirre was a truck driver engaged in hauling sugar beets from the fields to the plant of defendant Holly Sugar Company of Hereford. Following…