Vasquez v. Chemical Exchange Industries Inc.

OPINION

RAY, Justice.

This is a personal injury suit in which the trial court granted a default judgment on liability as a discovery sanction and after a hearing on damages awarded judgment to Vasquez. The court of appeals held that Chemical Exchange had received inadequate notice of the damages hearing and reversed the trial court judgment. 709 S.W.2d 257. The facts of this case are accurately set out in the court of appeals’ opinion, with one important exception. The court’s statement that the order granting the Motion for Sanctions, rendering the default judgment and setting a hearing on…