Jones v. Southwestern Newspapers Corp.

REYNOLDS, Chief Justice.

Jerry H. Jones has appealed from a take-nothing summary judgment rendered in his action to hold Southwestern Newspapers Corporation, publisher of The Avalanche-Journal in Lubbock, liable for the personal injuries he sustained as the result of a negligent act by an independent contractor’s substitute newspaper carrier. Jones sought to hold the newspaper corporation liable on the theory of negligence in the selection and retention of, or in the failure to train, its negligent carrier, but the corpo ration prevailed on the theory that it is not vicariously liable for the…